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link this, baby!  monday, april 30

Loud food

"Food should be seen and not heard "

From Heather Champ's Fictitious Guide to Fine Dining.

Fine dining? Ahem.

Who am I kidding? Mac and cheese is fine dining round these part, but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion about Loud Food. What is Loud Food?

Loud food is any food that announces itself in a way that food really shouldn't. "Sizzling" food that is presented on a very, very hot iron plate. You can hear Loud Food wending it's way towards your table.

"Look at me. Here I come. This is your food talking. I'm really fucking hot."

Carnivores, do you want even the slightest voice given to your food? Vegetarians, do you want to get into that discussion about when plants die or if they continue to feel?

Perhaps it's the element of danger?

"The plate is very hot."

It can't be that. No one wants pain while dining. That's not true. Hot sauce belies this.

The mystery of Loud Food. I guess we'll never know.
Helen Chadwick, Vanity, 1986.

Many thanks to those who sent birthday greetings yesterday. The whacky animations and tinny midi files had me tingling all over. No, really! I love you all. It was a day replete with Dairy Queen, Highway 1, "sizzling mushrooms" (so that's what sizzling means, see above) and a previously unvisited beach.

Rabbit rabbit!

The day before yesterday? PC envy.







S.Pellegrino


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