Que será, el café of this holy, incorporated place, the wild steam of scorched espresso cakes rising like mirages from the aromatic waste, waving over the coffee-glossed lips of these faces
assembled for a standing breakfast of nostalgia, of tastes that swirl with the delicacy...
And he said to himself, if primates, rodents, and hoofed mammals each have their place, so must noodles, tinned fruit, and cheeses. If hoofed mammals are channelled into camels, pigs, and goats, then let there be cheeses soft and blue...
That summer I got very thin on my diet of he-loves-me-not: kale, fried egg, a tomato melted in butter. And when I was flat enough, gin and the ring-ring- ring of that unanswered phone. Each week I bought a new bottle of vinegar—which is delicious slopped on hot...
Twice a year Apa cooked his “monk’s half-moon” dish: pumpkin blossom lamb curry—first crackle the fenugreek seeds in ghee, stir the thinly sliced baby pumpkins translucent, add a concocted paste of wild herbs soaked in buttermilk overnight, drop the smoked fatted lamb pieces, pour...