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Cookbook Club: First Lunch
My friend Su started a Cookbook Club this year ~ we read a cookbook we're interested in or about a cuisine we're keen to learn about and have a bring-and-share meal made from recipes from that book.
This quarter, we read Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan.
Amidst the ongoing use of famine as part of the genocidal acts against the Palestinian people (and during Ramadan), I had mixed feelings about sharing a feast and celebration.
I am not religious, and we are a group of shared values but disparate faiths, availability, and beliefs. Conspicuous celebration and plentiful food can be used to mock people in unimaginably cruel circumstances. I wondered about appropriateness and respect for the scale of the unfolding historical moment. I approached it with the thought that there is a gravity and simplicity to acknowledging our lives are being changed by witnessing this injustice through a meal at a lowkey home gathering. The timing was difficult, but so is the situation, and we decided to go ahead.
My contributions to the shared dinner: aubergine and feta kefte, and a molten chocolate dessert (not pictured).
Our group was lively, and subjects were mixed. Neurodiverse women and topic maintenance are not always friends, so gossiping, ideological discussions, and playfulness were what kept us talking and eating into the night together. We were emotional and available to each other. Su read an excerpt from the book before we started eating. It felt significant beyond the mundane, and we all need a ceremony sometimes.
Despite being powerless in some ways, this reminded me that we have transformative ways to resist occupation. I think one is sharing and respecting Palestinian culture. The book itself has many resonant quotes about this idea, and I encourage everyone to read Zaitoun and make the recipes! They're economical, tasty, and can be easily adapted to local produce.
"Palestinian food tasted alive. And in a region that too often feels as though it is dying. I appreciated that more than ever." - Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen.
I think remembering, acknowledging community and humanity, and exchanging cultural memories are absolutely necessary and should be practiced as much as a person is able to, even in grief, even in despair. Oppression denies our humanity. It is nourishing to a human being, to eat and share, and enjoy food. It's part of creating families, communities, and enchanted life moments. Our celebration happened during Ramadan, while some of our members couldn't take part for different reasons, and their absence was felt with bittersweet understanding. Our group will continue to explore, learn, and try to preserve Palestinian cooking as well as cuisine from other people in the world.
#cookbook#cookblr#zaitoun#palestinian recipes#Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen#palestine#cooking
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Just a little betta tank and community tank update pics - everything is overgrown, and I'm letting it happen. I'm changing the lights around in the community tank to get the foliage in the foreground more dense.
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I've been sick and tired and under it all at work so the tanks are overgrown.
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The conversation about the Barbie (2023) that begins at about 21minutes in is interesting to me as it relates to the mixed feelings I have about the movie. The defense of the Barbie dramatic speech don't really sit well with me and the two hosts here discuss the inconsistencies with the general message of vague choice feminism (?) in the movie.
The defense of Just Let People Enjoy Cash Grabs is invoked a lot with Barbie (2023) and I think the most I can do is keep quiet because I don't think an iota of useful praxis is coming out of that whole thing.
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Peter Magubane (South Africa)
Mugabane started his career in 1955 in the midst of apartheid in South Africa. He started his career in 1955, when he joined Drum magazine. This took Magubane and his camera to the heart of the anti-apartheid defiance campaigns and treason trials. However, at the time the official press venues were restricted to white photographers only. Not being allowed to carry a camera in the open, he had to hide his camera in a hollowed out Bible, loaf of bread, or empty milk carton to get the shots he needed.
On June 1969 he was arrested and held for 586 days in solitary confinement without being charged with a crime.
On his release, he was banned from photography for five years and had to resign from the Rand Daily Mail.
In 1971, he was rearrested and sentenced to a further 123 days for contravening the banning order, prompting the newspaper to run a feature, Magubane, The Man Who Does Not Exist.
However his coverage of the June 16 Soweto student uprisings circumnavigated the globe, earning him international acclaim and made him an icon of the struggle. On this day 3000 and 10 000 students mobilized by the Soweto Students Representative Council’s Action Committee supported by the BCM marched peacefully to demonstrate and protest against the government’s directive. The march was meant to culminate at a rally in Orlando Stadium. However, on their pathway they were met by heavily armed police who fired teargas and later live ammunition on demonstrating students. This resulted in a widespread revolt that turned into an uprising against the government. While the uprising began in Soweto, it spread across the country and carried on until the following year.
When a group of young men approached him demanding that he stop taking photos he said ‘Struggle without documentation is not struggle. I’m not asking for myself only; I’m asking for anybody that has a camera documenting this struggle. You must let them work.’”
The aftermath of the events of June 16 1976 had dire consequences for the Apartheid government. Images of the police firing on peacefully demonstrating students led an international revulsion against South Africa as its brutality was exposed. Meanwhile, the weakened and exiled liberation movements received new recruits fleeing political persecution at home giving impetus to the struggle against Apartheid.
His worldwide acclaim for his work led to a number of international photographic and journalistic awards, one of which was the American National Professional Photographers Association Humanistic Award in 1986, in recognition of one of several incidents in which he put his camera aside and intervened to help prevent people from being killed.
He also took photographs for several United Nations agencies, including the High Commission for Refugees and UNICEF, being particularly committed to exposing the plight of children and documenting traditional societies. His photographs have appeared in Life magazine, the New York Times, National Geographic and Time magazine.
Magubane was a fighter. He thrived on the challenge. And in 1990 his hard work was rewarded when Mandela personally chose him as his official photographer.
Further reading via conciousness.zb
NYT interview on his current work
Recent exhibition on child labor
*forgive the length of this post. Tumblr coverage of his work is sorely lacking so i feel compelled to give more context.
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a year of growing little plants in a little pool, we've come a reasonable way and I like the progress so far.
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Made some soy marinated eggs for my friend as a present
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1670 + female costumes
costume design by Katarzyna Lewińska
requested by anon
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Now that I’m out of school, I find myself desperately wanting to make things. Maybe because I work in software which is far too intangible. Maybe because I neglected my creative side for years while pursuing academic excellence. Maybe because I’m struggling a bit with life in general, and creating things for fun grounds me.
So that’s how I’ve ended up with like 4 different fiber arts projects going, and I’m teaching myself German, and I’m taking a creative writing course, and I’m rereading a childhood favorite series. And it makes me so happy.
So go make things. Make them badly. Start projects and leave them half-finished for months, or finish them and marvel at the lopsided, messy, beautiful thing that you and only you made with your own two hands. Pick up that new hobby you’ve always wanted to try, be inspired by a random Instagram post of someone else’s art and try to replicate it, take a community class that sounds half interesting.
life is too short to only do one thing. Make the most of your time.
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"As part of FIYAH’s solidarity pledge with the people of Palestine, FIYAH released a special issue curated, edited, illustrated and comprised entirely of Palestinian creators in December 2021. The collection was edited by guests Nadia Shammas and Summer Farah, and featured cover art by Leila Aboutaleb.""As part of FIYAH’s solidarity pledge with the people of Palestine, FIYAH released a special issue curated, edited, illustrated and comprised entirely of Palestinian creators in December 2021. The collection was edited by guests Nadia Shammas and Summer Farah, and featured cover art by Leila Aboutaleb."
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I feel such an affinity with my betta. I see her chilling on a leaf and I think, "Yes, I too love a lie down in my little house full of plants."
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"People do not like to see the even tenor of their lives disturbed. They do not like to be made to feel guilty. They do not like to be told that what they have always believed was right is wrong. And above all they resent encroachment on what they regard as their special province. But I make no apologies. It is meet that we speak the truth before we die." - Robert Sobukwe, 21 October 1949
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