A Friday round-up
cooking, cabins, brown paint, Barbara Cartland, etc
Good morning. The word for marmoset in French is ouistiti. OUISTITI. Annoying that there isn’t a constant need to say it - l’addition et un ouistiti, svp.
Here are some other things I’ve liked this week.
This recipe ↑ for bitter chocolate sauce. Very handy thing to have up your sleeve.
Monty Don talking about his wife Sarah on Saturday Live and saying ‘having somebody who you love and who loves you solves most problems’.
This fascinating conversation between Pandora Sykes and Tina Brown about the state of contemporary media, among other things.
(What’s interesting to me about the current state of play is writers realising that what brings the readers isn’t affiliation with the legacy media platform they’re on. It’s them! It’s their words! Duh).
This really beautiful post by Horticulturalish (and all her other posts, frankly).
Tamar Adler’s wonderful list of reasons why people cook. E.g.:
The sounds
It is the only way to get close to: russet apples, Pecorino, salt-packed anchovies, chicories, ricotta, Thai birdseye chilies, aji limon, a range of olive oils, and at least a thousand other bits of creation
For a deep understanding that potato chips are not junk food
To get close to skate, grapefruit, artichokes, oyster mushrooms, and at least another thousand chunks of the cosmos
To write menus
To appreciate a donut
To join the ancient and eternal community of cooks, who have no criteria for membership other than cooking
Bacon