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Kitchen #2: Memory’s Core | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #2: Memory’s Core. Main Street Manti, 1974. Photo courtesy of Viewliner Ltd. 10 Depot Street, Manti, Utah. My grandmother could remove the peel from an apple in one piece. Over and over, her thumb and forefinger would push the blade to the perfect position, taking away what wasn’t the pie. I remember when the first car came to my town, she’d say. We thought it was some kind of wagon. As I walked out in the streets of Laredo,. Oh, Little Joe the Wrangler.
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Why Kitchens? | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Aged Cheese, Aged Fork. People say that a kitchen is the heart of the home. But I think it is also the head. Some people keep a list of boyfriends. I keep a list of kitchens. So I counted them up. The number of kitchens in which I’ve lived. And I thought about each one, each address where a kitchen was the center of the house and of my life. Each has its own story, its own memories and its own food. On December 28, 2011 at 8:25 pm Comments (4). I like the idea of t...
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Kitchen #6: Not Not Gnocchin’ on Heaven’s Door | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #6: Not Not Gnocchin’ on Heaven’s Door. The stage is set. Everything I am I owe to pasta. 40 East 300 North, Provo, Utah (or thereabouts). Making gnocchi for the first time is like learning Braille. Or as I imagine it might be for a blind person to learn Braille. Both foreign concepts. Both have everything to do with fingers. Both about stumbling and fumbling, a language known in the hands. 8220;Yes, mother, I practiced for two hours. The basement apartment...
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Kitchen #4: Doll Parts | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #4: Doll Parts. Midge whips up a pie. 1900 University Street, #4, Provo, Utah, 198. 8230; toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators. Roland Barthes, Mythologies. There is something existential about a kitchen shared by four 19-year-old virgins. We are toys made out of ourselves. Of course we know our Eden can’t last. We’d have to involve the inevitable men eventually. I wonder if I knew...Jessica, wh...
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December | 2011 | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #3: Cereal Polygamy. The second wife buried the first wife across the cemetery. Helaman Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 8230; and the moon comes up as the moon. All its images are in the dump) and you see. As a man (not like an image of a man),. You see the moon rise in the empty sky. Wallace Stevens, “The Man on the Dump”. The Conversation in my Head: Crunchberries fit into a food group. We know it is wrong. Is more accurate. Or. Into the bowl...
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February | 2012 | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #5: White on Rice. North, 300 East, Provo, Utah (or thereabouts). I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2000 of something. Everything was pork; everything was beef. At the Casa Blanca, we were all Mormon, yet we felt divided by a common religion. I felt that their cultures made them confident, let them somehow. When I was in junior high, my sister’s travels as a nanny to France and Switzerland also fed my growing insecurity about my own cultu...
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January | 2012 | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #4: Doll Parts. Midge whips up a pie. 1900 University Street, #4, Provo, Utah, 198. 8230; toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators. Roland Barthes, Mythologies. There is something existential about a kitchen shared by four 19-year-old virgins. We are toys made out of ourselves. Of course we know our Eden can’t last. We’d have to involve the inevitable men eventually. I wonder if I knew...Jessica, wh...
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April | 2012 | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #6: Not Not Gnocchin’ on Heaven’s Door. The stage is set. Everything I am I owe to pasta. 40 East 300 North, Provo, Utah (or thereabouts). Making gnocchi for the first time is like learning Braille. Or as I imagine it might be for a blind person to learn Braille. Both foreign concepts. Both have everything to do with fingers. Both about stumbling and fumbling, a language known in the hands. 8220;Yes, mother, I practiced for two hours. The basement apartment...
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Kitchen #3: Cereal Polygamy | 26kitchens
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How neither here nor there became Home. Kitchen #3: Cereal Polygamy. The second wife buried the first wife across the cemetery. Helaman Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 8230; and the moon comes up as the moon. All its images are in the dump) and you see. As a man (not like an image of a man),. You see the moon rise in the empty sky. Wallace Stevens, “The Man on the Dump”. The Conversation in my Head: Crunchberries fit into a food group. We know it is wrong. Is more accurate. Or. Into the bowl...
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