ex cathedra: Comfort food

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Comfort food

One of my favorite TV memories from the late 90's, those halcyon days between the fall of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Twin Towers was the very unPC British cooking series...yes, a British cooking series...Two Fat Ladies.

These two very plump and cheeky dames --Clarissa and Jennifer--used ride around on a motorcycle with sidecar, full of curiosity, joie de vivre and good humor, to cook a variety of meals for a variety of groups, from cricket clubs to Benedictine monasteries of nuns to barristers. All fresh, all traditional. Afterwards, they'd sit out and smoke and drink and laugh.

This episode, as they all do, has my mouth watering and my arteries hardening just from watching. No fat-free nouvelle cuisine for these two: butter, sour cream, sugar abound.

Salmon mousse with cucumber sauce. Beef Wellington. Swiss chard with garlic and anchovies. For dessert, strawberry breasts (fragomammelli).

Jennifer, at right. She was a devout Catholic,--tho expelled from convent school for being a disruptive girl-- loved parties and loathed vegetarians. When she died suddenly in '99, the show, sadly, ended. For her last meal, she asked for caviar. They were great, the two of them.

This blog is about politics, sex and religion. There's nothing much political about this food or this show, with a dinner like that...pretty close to sex and religion.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Toward Our Future

What the sons of Europa need is a new religion: one that is as tribal, portable and survivalist as Judaism, as masculine, terrestrial and tough as Islam and as intellectually and aesthetically creative as Christianity...with a dose of the unflinching realism of the ancestral ways of the Greeks and Romans, Germans and Celts and Slavs..And for the larger Indo-European frame, something of the Indian capacity to combine an ultimate and philosophical realization of The One with a robustly mytho-poetic religion on-the-ground. Oh, and some of the psychological acumen of Buddhism.

Liberalism's Basic Flaw

Liberals believe that the chief role of the State is to force everyone to be equal, (ie, take vengeance on the successful). So when they are confronted with any group that they deem less well off than themselves, they are morally disarmed, completely and utterly. Any group that can achieve Victim Status is on their way to power and the (White) liberal's only job is to give them what they want, no matter how much that damages him. And nothing may ever be expected, much less demanded, of them in return. It's a recipe for suicide: no other outcome is possible.