Re Leftover food tonight

"Sarah" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Lots of people seem to offer critisism, but posting a pix of your cooking
is so personal I applaud all of you that do!

Same here.

nancy

Sarah said:

I enjoy looking at the pix of modoms food, and other pix posted here. It
gives me a better idea of what has been cooked, as a lot of ingredients are
foreign to me, being from the UK.
Mole sauce seems popular at the moment, I've got to google what it is, as
it's not something we have in UK (Yorkshire at least!)
Lots of people seem to offer critisism, but posting a pix of your cooking is
so personal I applaud all of you that do!
Sarah

Well said, Sarah.

Cheers
Cathy(xyz)

Nancy Young said:

"Sarah" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Lots of people seem to offer critisism, but posting a pix of your cooking
is so personal I applaud all of you that do!

Same here.

I guess that's part of the motivation on my part. Food is actually a
heavily symbolic category in our lives. Not for nothing do Christians
make a sacrament of eating -- even if it's only a thin wafer. The
mythic potential of taking a part of the external world and putting it
into your body is huge.

I went through a phase of looking for the uses of food in classic
movies to see what was being done with it. I was reasoning that
movies play a cultural role not much different from ancient myths in a
sense. Chaplin's Modern Times pays a lot of attention to eating and
comically failing to eat and (also comically) being fed and misfed by
others. And Kubrick's 2001 has some really odd food scenes grafted
into the plot.

Someday maybe I'll get to teach a class on food and culture. I think
one text I'd use is Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice since he briefly
discusses his attempt to write a thesis on food in literature in grad
school.
--
modom

"My baby's got no clothes
'Cause she's makin' chicken soup."

-- Chuck E. Weiss

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:57:35 GMT, "Sarah" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I enjoy looking at the pix of modoms food, and other pix posted here. It
gives me a better idea of what has been cooked, as a lot of ingredients are
foreign to me, being from the UK.
Mole sauce seems popular at the moment, I've got to google what it is, as
it's not something we have in UK (Yorkshire at least!)
Lots of people seem to offer critisism, but posting a pix of your cooking is
so personal I applaud all of you that do!
Sarah

Sarah, there are many, many moles out there. But in my
non-professional experience, a mole is a classic Mexican concoction
that melds a large number of ingredients into a rich, subtle,
multi-layered sauce. Typically in the US, mole is built around chiles
and cocoa. However, not all moles are made so.
--
modom

"My baby's got no clothes
'Cause she's makin' chicken soup."

-- Chuck E. Weiss

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Nancy Young said:

"Sarah" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Lots of people seem to offer critisism, but posting a pix of your
cooking
is so personal I applaud all of you that do!

Same here.

I guess that's part of the motivation on my part. Food is actually a
heavily symbolic category in our lives. Not for nothing do Christians
make a sacrament of eating -- even if it's only a thin wafer. The
mythic potential of taking a part of the external world and putting it
into your body is huge.

I went through a phase of looking for the uses of food in classic
movies to see what was being done with it. I was reasoning that
movies play a cultural role not much different from ancient myths in a
sense. Chaplin's Modern Times pays a lot of attention to eating and
comically failing to eat and (also comically) being fed and misfed by
others. And Kubrick's 2001 has some really odd food scenes grafted
into the plot.

Someday maybe I'll get to teach a class on food and culture. I think
one text I'd use is Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice since he briefly
discusses his attempt to write a thesis on food in literature in grad
school.
--
modom

I am a foreign film buff -- have been for some 30 years now. One thing I
love about foreign films, no matter what country, is that food is an
integral part of the players' lives. It is a significant difference that
I've noticed for a long time.
Dee Dee

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Nancy Young said:

"Sarah" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Lots of people seem to offer critisism, but posting a pix of your
cooking
is so personal I applaud all of you that do!

Same here.

I guess that's part of the motivation on my part. Food is actually a
heavily symbolic category in our lives. Not for nothing do Christians
make a sacrament of eating -- even if it's only a thin wafer. The
mythic potential of taking a part of the external world and putting it
into your body is huge.

Consider the difference between "breaking bread" as a symbol of fellowship,
and transubstantiation, as well 🙂

Quoted message said:

I went through a phase of looking for the uses of food in classic
movies to see what was being done with it. I was reasoning that
movies play a cultural role not much different from ancient myths in a
sense. Chaplin's Modern Times pays a lot of attention to eating and
comically failing to eat and (also comically) being fed and misfed by
others. And Kubrick's 2001 has some really odd food scenes grafted
into the plot.

Someday maybe I'll get to teach a class on food and culture. I think
one text I'd use is Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice since he briefly
discusses his attempt to write a thesis on food in literature in grad
school.

This might interest you:

http://www.feminista.com/archives/v2n2/eaton.html

especially the idea that medieval female asceticism (manifested in a kind of
personal anorexia) is directly linked to women's role as the preparers and
distributors of food to others, all part of a complex interaction between
flesh and spirit....

Jani

Jani said:

"modom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I guess that's part of the motivation on my part. Food is actually a
heavily symbolic category in our lives. Not for nothing do Christians
make a sacrament of eating -- even if it's only a thin wafer. The
mythic potential of taking a part of the external world and putting it
into your body is huge.

Consider the difference between "breaking bread" as a symbol of fellowship,
and transubstantiation, as well 🙂

Quoted message said:

I went through a phase of looking for the uses of food in classic
movies to see what was being done with it. I was reasoning that
movies play a cultural role not much different from ancient myths in a
sense. Chaplin's Modern Times pays a lot of attention to eating and
comically failing to eat and (also comically) being fed and misfed by
others. And Kubrick's 2001 has some really odd food scenes grafted
into the plot.

Someday maybe I'll get to teach a class on food and culture. I think
one text I'd use is Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice since he briefly
discusses his attempt to write a thesis on food in literature in grad
school.

This might interest you:

http://www.feminista.com/archives/v2n2/eaton.html

especially the idea that medieval female asceticism (manifested in a kind of
personal anorexia) is directly linked to women's role as the preparers and
distributors of food to others, all part of a complex interaction between
flesh and spirit....

Jani

Thanks for the interesting link. I've bookmarked it.

--
modom

"My baby's got no clothes
'Cause she's makin' chicken soup."

-- Chuck E. Weiss

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Jani said:

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I guess that's part of the motivation on my part. Food is actually a
heavily symbolic category in our lives. Not for nothing do Christians
make a sacrament of eating -- even if it's only a thin wafer. The
mythic potential of taking a part of the external world and putting it
into your body is huge.

Consider the difference between "breaking bread" as a symbol of
fellowship,
and transubstantiation, as well 🙂

Quoted message said:

I went through a phase of looking for the uses of food in classic
movies to see what was being done with it. I was reasoning that
movies play a cultural role not much different from ancient myths in a
sense. Chaplin's Modern Times pays a lot of attention to eating and
comically failing to eat and (also comically) being fed and misfed by
others. And Kubrick's 2001 has some really odd food scenes grafted
into the plot.

Someday maybe I'll get to teach a class on food and culture. I think
one text I'd use is Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice since he briefly
discusses his attempt to write a thesis on food in literature in grad
school.

This might interest you:

http://www.feminista.com/archives/v2n2/eaton.html

especially the idea that medieval female asceticism (manifested in a kind
of
personal anorexia) is directly linked to women's role as the preparers and
distributors of food to others, all part of a complex interaction between
flesh and spirit....

Jani

Thanks for the interesting link. I've bookmarked it.

Ooh, and speaking of films, La Grande Bouffe? Early 70s. *Very* weird. I
went into the cinema thinking mostly of where we were going to eat later,
and came out with my appetite *totally* gone 😉

Jani