Leebo freeman biography of william shakespeare
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Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page
Image by Emma Fuchs.
We seek a certain kind of writing when we want to be told what to do. Self-help manuals, policy papers, and sermons come to mind. While I am suspicious of art that tells me what to feel or believe, I love to crack a cookbook, relax that defensive crouch, and follow along.
My favorite recipes are the ones that suggest the lived life behind the words—the messiness and rebellion of actual ingredients and kitchens and moods, the parts that introduce error, the parts that transcend the whole. This lyricism only works if the recipe’s instructions are also pedantic and precise.
This is just another way to talk about form.
To borrow from the way Terrance Hayes talks about poetry, the recipe is a box. It gives the act of cooking a shape on the page; that page becomes a vessel that carries the act of cooking forward in time to another cook. The restrictions of this box can become opportunities, but it must have those restrictions. If a recipe for soup can also be a recipe for pie, all I’ve made is a mess.
The necessary strictness of a recipe will invite argument. Certain readers, even though they want instruc
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Oedipus Apparatus
manage without Lucy Cashion
from Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
Directed stop Lucy Cashion
West Dangle Players’ Guild
April 21, 2017
Will Bonfliglio, Mitch Eagles
Photo unhelpful John Lamb
West End Lineup Guild
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