Ingredients
- Potatoes
Method
The potatoes that are good to eat are the potatoes that have known life underground and have loved life underground. Their skin shows the hardness of that life but also its beauty. They are bought from the potato sellers in Montmartre whose faces are like the potatoes for showing the hardness and goodness together.
He boils the potatoes and places them into the bowl. The potato masher is cool in his hand and heavy and it is freighted with the violence of the act to come. Life is short, he thinks; shorter for a potato. There is not enough time to do all that we would.
When you mash them they are broken, but in the breaking they become magnificent. He thinks of the war, and of her.
Also, impotence.
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Guided by Anthony Bourdain
As narrated by Sir David Attenborough
Summoned into festive life through that most beneficent of storytellers, Mr Charles Dickens
by Sally Rooney
an ode by Rupi Kaur
Penned by Robert Frost
RuPaul spilling the tea
Sung by Michael Bublé
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