In Robert Icke’s The Doctor, a hugely popular West End play, a kettle was one of the only props in the entire play. The main character Ruth, played by British idol Juliet Stevenson, noted that “Tea was the currency of love in our house growing up”, and how she always keeps the kettle hot because …
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Working at X in Boston was chaotic in many ways, as charming as the establishment was. A lack of consistent workers led to me performing some jobs I wasn’t trained for, or necessarily allowed to do. On a particularly hot and busy Thursday night when I was 17, I was working as the only waitress …
“All you do is sift the flour and baking powder into a roomy mixing bowl, lifting the sieve quite high to give the flour a good airing as it goes down, then simply add all the other ingredients.” My mum, following Delia Smith’s instructions for a classic sponge cake, began what would become the staple of …
It’s nine o’clock in the morning and I’ve got that damn stick in my mouth again. And it will be going back in each day for the rest of my life, lest I return to the hygiene practices of my youth, wherein I would forgo the brush, place a pillow of toothpaste under my tongue, …
You pair the skin off. It falls in crescents. In your palm remains the stitched moon, you turn it round, bringing the tide in with it. The grapefruit squeezes your hand. It is begging you to eat it. For years the orange fruits have been getting bigger and you haven’t noticed a thing. The thing …
The Kosher truck I couldn’t tell you when my family started observing the laws of Kashrut, but we can safely say that it was many, many generations ago. When we stopped keeping Kosher is easier to track. My great-grandparents Abe and Mina were born in New York in 1912, and 1911, respectively, the children of …
September 22, 2021 – Bluestone Lane, LA My first attempt at latté art as a barista-in training; whole milk July 5, 2022 – Bluestone Lane, LA After about a month as barista; oat milk July 26, 2022 – Bluestone Lane, LATrying new latté art techniques; whole milk Upon leaving my job as a barista to come back to …
As I sit in my room, Air Pods nestled in my ears, all I hear is the pressing sound of silence. I put my playlist on shuffle and await which songs will play, ready to skip to the one I actually want to hear, yet welcoming a challenge: does the playlist know me better than I …
Photo of Grimond de la Reyniere’s Almanach Des Gourmands. In his description and analysis of Grimond de la Reyniere’s rise to power in the world of French cuisine, Michael Garval reveals the origins of French food culture. Freed from their bonds to their aristocratic clientele, chefs in post-Revolution France had a newfound power to cook …
Exterior view of the McDonald’s restaurant in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. You’re seventeen (or eighteen, or fifteen) years old. Finally a junior (or senior or sophomore) in highschool and you’re looking for some extra cash. Don’t you want to flip burgers? Wear a visor? Come home smelling like a french fry? We know just by visiting a McDonald’s– …
