"What is it like to eat an idea or its suggestion?"
It is the end of September I feel the emptiness of the memories I forgot but it's hardly a war the heat is merely that of a kitchen and I am fifteen and waiting to transform ingredients into happiness to make meaning with sweet triumph I imagine my throne made with spoonsful of sugar mean to spin jalebis airy as as asemic wishes instead what I've made clings to me like tears my dad tells me it's wonderful, it's wonderful it really is wonderful, he says but jalebis are proud as royal signatures and what I have in the pan are droppings of batter dad's hand lifts my chin his other hand sketches in the air name your dish after you make it, he tells me he peers at the pan again don't you see? what you've made are the best "jalebi balls" I've ever seen this is truly the best cooking advice I will ever be given to say what a thing is after it is done the best writing advice the best advice really
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Note: The quote is from RPT MC-60 00.27 8 by Tan Lin a poem about Wiley Dufresne's restaurant WD-50. We ate there once maybe 20 years ago? It seemed like a very New York thing to do at the time. (We used to go to fancy restaurants for lunch because the menu tends to be less expensive at lunch than at dinner.)
Pic: Across the fence, our neighbor's woods.
10 comments:
love this. and love the idea of memories I've forgotten.
Say what a thing is after it is done--and don't tell anyone what you started out making.
Julia Child said, "Never apologize. Never explain."
I think all this is the key to Creativity.
Lovely memory and sentiment
If it is a memory, I should say. Guess I shouldn't assume the speaker of the poem is the author of the poem, but with you, I think it usually is, right?
Beautiful- and that really is the best advice.
Thanks, Sarah!
Oh, to be like Julia Child! Thanks for this, Nance--another nugget to treasure...
Thanks, Steph--it usually is, yes... If I reference my parents it most certainly is :)!
Thanks, Jenny. The "balls" part of it always made me chuckle because it was so incongruous. But it is solid advice.
Nice
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