Charles Jones took beautiful photographs of vegetables, fruit and flowers. That is all that is known. It is not known, for example, why he took them, or where (and only roughly when). All that can be said with any certainty is that the photographs on the next seventeen pages were probably made by a …
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‘What does that mean, vegan cheese? asks a lady who’d had no query about amuse-bouche.’
An extract from The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes.
‘it’s wrong / to let delicacies, even when suspect, go untried’
A poem by Natalie Shapero.
‘The recipe is a text that can produce spattering because it was spattering before it was language.’
Rebecca May Johnson on recipes, repetition and intimacy.
‘Life is not worth living / without salami.’
A poem by Sandra Cisneros.
‘The familiar scenes floated by. Life renewing itself, the same from year to year.’
