IT seems incredibly obvious to write a novel about two of humanities core afflictions. Food and sex. The drive towards both are integral to human survival. Most wars are raged over them.
Eating a crumpet, syrup dripping down your wrist. You ask me, What is this? I respond. That is what is keeping you alive.
“Has it ever occurred to you that food is intensely social? There is so much to think about before you eat. The origins of food…the social politics of its production.”
The social production of food is understanding that eating is something which raises fundamentally ethical questions. Understanding where the food you consume comes from. It’s thinking about how we eat bananas picked by child slaves in Ecuador. It’s understanding the cocoa trade is one of the most …show more content…
We have to think it has not lowered us but has revealed us to our true level (gravity and grace)
Heavy (You must eat or you’ll be weak).
My mother. Broken sun inside the teacup. Drink it before it gets cold.
I always try to be indirect.
Like an untended garden bed, all the flowers in your house grow old and die.
I went outside to smoke my last cigarette because I was sad but it started raining. I went inside and left it on the kitchen bench. I think I will have it for dinner.
I shared a room with my sister until I was thirteen.
My sister died when I was thirteen.
I first met Sasha when we were both finishing our final year at University.
Girls end up in the Eichenhof because there’s no one to look after them. TO have noonw: That means there’s no bread and butter waiting for you when you come home from work. You have to fix it yourself. And so you walk around the streers,you spend a little money. You don’t sleep at ngiht. But above all it means you have no one to turn to except yourself. (Kraus, 13).
“There was never enough food to eat when my father was young. (What makes me thinner is
Eating a crumpet, syrup dripping down your wrist. You ask me, What is this? I respond. That is what is keeping you alive.
“Has it ever occurred to you that food is intensely social? There is so much to think about before you eat. The origins of food…the social politics of its production.”
The social production of food is understanding that eating is something which raises fundamentally ethical questions. Understanding where the food you consume comes from. It’s thinking about how we eat bananas picked by child slaves in Ecuador. It’s understanding the cocoa trade is one of the most …show more content…
We have to think it has not lowered us but has revealed us to our true level (gravity and grace)
Heavy (You must eat or you’ll be weak).
My mother. Broken sun inside the teacup. Drink it before it gets cold.
I always try to be indirect.
Like an untended garden bed, all the flowers in your house grow old and die.
I went outside to smoke my last cigarette because I was sad but it started raining. I went inside and left it on the kitchen bench. I think I will have it for dinner.
I shared a room with my sister until I was thirteen.
My sister died when I was thirteen.
I first met Sasha when we were both finishing our final year at University.
Girls end up in the Eichenhof because there’s no one to look after them. TO have noonw: That means there’s no bread and butter waiting for you when you come home from work. You have to fix it yourself. And so you walk around the streers,you spend a little money. You don’t sleep at ngiht. But above all it means you have no one to turn to except yourself. (Kraus, 13).
“There was never enough food to eat when my father was young. (What makes me thinner is