More Time in the Kitchen in 2012
This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
I ate lunch with my 104-year-old grandma on Christmas day.
I do this every year but it was only last night, while listening to Adam Gopnik on Charlie Rose, that I realised why I do it…
Gopnik writes for The New Yorker and is the author of The Table Comes First.
He believes that we use food symbolically to say who we are.
Eating with my grandmother who is so old and has been the backbone of my childhood grounds me. That’s exactly what I need the end of the year… it is like standing on a solid foundation… ready to be propelled into the new year.
Gopnik also says that “food is at the centre of how people present themselves”.
Hmmm… What does that say about me? I see myself as a reasonably good cook. My cuisine is partially Italian and partially Austrian or something in between… and I get a little help from M&S (more often than I would like to admit…).
Anyway, Gopnik thinks that cooking is good for people who write:
“… if you are a writer by vocation you spend your life inside your head mostly spinning sentences around and that moment when you start chopping onions…. that simple activity of chopping onions is where you release yourself from the inside of your head”.
Bring on the onions! Happy New Year, everybody!
