Tag: food

Earth with Rebeca, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Anne Fisher

Inspired by Garcia Marquez’s 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, “She went back to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste would be the best cure for the temptation. And, in fact she could not bear the earth in her mouth. But she persevered, overcome with the growing anxiety, and little by little she was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste of primary minerals, the unbridled satisfaction of what was the original food.” Colombian writer 1927-2014

Peach pie with Jack Beal

Anne Fisher

Inspired by Beal’s recipe in Nadime Haim’s 1988 “The Artist’s Palate”, his comment that “All these meals were prepared by my grandmother and her cook, with help from my mother and other family members, on and in a large wood-burning cast-iron range. The memory of that stove, and of those meals, warms me yet” and Beal’s 1975 screenprint “Buds” American artist 1931-2013

A giant onion with James Beard

Anne Fisher

Inspired by Beard’s comment that “The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavour of raw onions.” American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality 1903-1985

Anything with Ivan Denisovich, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn                                                           

Anne Fisher

Inspired by Solzhenitsyn’s novel “A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich”, “If you found a bowl with something left in it you could hardly resist licking it out” Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner 1918-2008