Molly’s Comments on Consider the Fork

May 25th, 2013

 

I focused on the “Grind” chapter.  Always keep my nose to the grindstone, my Mama used to say. Cooking was a lot of work before blenders and automatic choppers came into vogue. Listen to this: “Behind every course of a grand dinner was a mini-army of minions with sore arms.” (Location 2403-Kindle). She speaks of “technological stagnation” in this area for thousands of years. The kitchen helped used sieves, mortar and pestles.  I’ve been wanting to get a mortar and pestle.  I think it’d be rather cathartic.  Listen to me! Such luxury to choose to grind my food because it will give me time to take out my anger, or think about my day, or pretend I’m old fashioned!