The potter Edmund de Waal, author of the memoir The Hare With Amber Eyes, describes his favourite Japanese netsuke, or miniature sculptures, as ones where you can ‘feel the wear’. They’re the ones that have ‘been changed by being handled; they’ve had a life, and a history, and been knocked around and rubbed away….’ I […]
Month: May 2011
Now-ness Pitta
I’m on the hunt for now-ness or the glories of the present tense. It’s a transporting concept, expressed magnificently by the playwright Dennis Potter in his final interview. He was already grievously ill and as he laboured to finish writing Cold Lazarus and Karaoke, he glimpsed the plum tree outside his window. ‘…it is the […]
The Ginger Pig
The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde Published in hardback on 7th May 2011 (Mitchell Beazley, £25.00) Photography Kristin Perers If I was a pig I’d like to grow up on one of Tim Wilson’s farms. The pink-cheeked and chubby Yorkshire farmer describes his book The Ginger Pig as […]
Review: The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde
The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde Published in hardback on 7th May 2011 (Mitchell Beazley, £25.00) Photography Kristin Perers If I was a pig I’d like to grow up on one of Tim Wilson’s farms. The pink-cheeked and chubby Yorkshire farmer describes his book The Ginger Pig as a ‘meat […]
The mythology of cake
When I was growing up, tea after school was my favourite meal. It’s hard to relay the awfulness of school dinners in those days and by teatime I was ravenously hungry. On the bus journey home and the long walk from the bus stop, I fantasised about what there might be to eat. My great […]