An afternoon picnic and implemental nurture under the Algerian Oak tree at
@heidemoma . Where cooking tools saw the soul-embedding restoration of wooden spoons, copper pots, scarred chopping boards and scraped pans, cooked by
@seasonalsimone . Planned in celebration of the exhibition Radical Nurture, curated by
@mora_lily .
Guests were invited to bring kitchen items for convivial repair alongside a simple meal cooked from Mirka Mora’s own copper pots and pans.
The intuitive cook flies by the seat of their pants. Ingredients, swept off their feet, join an orgy of utensils, time and heat – a cook’s tools – reliable, indispensable and always within reach.
Here, a certain radical nurture extends beyond the cook’s offspring and is expressed through the maintenance of one’s handy kitchen arsenal. Like parental love, maintaining the ‘domestic aesthetic,’ as Barbara Blackman coined it at Heide, requires a somewhat regimented, tough love; a brisk sanding down, an acidic and bubbly once over, a tall drink of wax or oil.
To love and share the domestic work (both men and women) amongst pots and pans, is a language defined by the Reeds and their willing co-collaborators; in breakfast, lunch, ‘arvo tea and dinners. Each Heide cook, despite their austere palettes, often corrupted by the whispers of their wooden spoons, to add more brandy, to pop the onion in whole, to flip a rosti in front of an audience, to stuff a chicken with Sunday’s roses, to lather fresh cream or cook peas very simply.
“To see Sunday in the kitchen was like watching a dancer, she was incredibly active and immensely trained, as it were … nothing was too much trouble, and all was fast”
MENU prepared artfully by
@seasonalsimone
- John’s jus à la table, freshly squeezed OJ on ice
- Arvo’ tea christened with champagne poured into Crème Ninon, topped with herbs from the Heide garden
- Wildblume ‘tomme aux fleurs’ cheese, rye and butter
- Babas au rum, roaming rum pram
- Earl Grey madeleines
- Takehome LP Illustrated lavender bags, guests filled with some Heide lavender on their way out
Documentation 📸 Ruby Taylor
![#lpwikifood - Comfort food. With the changing of the seasons, we are back sinking our teeth into foods that warm our cockles and tickle our cosy toes “Comfort food is food that or sentimental value[1] and may be characterised by its satisfying heartiness and association with childhood or home cooking.[2][3] The nostalgia may be specific to an individual or it may apply to a specific culture.[4]The term comfort food can be traced back at least to 1615, where in the beginning of the second part of Don Quixote, at the beginning of chapter one, Quixote’s niece and her nurse (governess, housekeeper?, “ama”) are told to pamper him, “to give him things to eat which are comforting and appropriate for the heart and the brain... .” Others trace it back to 1966, when the Palm Beach Post used it in a story: “Adults, when under severe emotional stress, turn to what could be called ‘comfort food’—food associated with the security of childhood, like mother’s poached egg or famous chicken soup.”[5] According to research by April White at JSTOR, it might have been Liza Minnelli who used the term for the first time in its modern meaning in an interview, admitting to craving a hamburger.[6]….Psychological studies:Consuming energy-dense, high calorie, high fat, salt or sugar foods, such as ice cream or french fries, may trigger the reward system in the human brain, which gives a distinctive pleasure or temporary sense of emotional elevation and relaxation.[7][8] These feelings can also be induced by psychoactive ingredients found in other foods, such as coffee and chocolate.[9] When psychological conditions are present, people often use comfort food to treat themselves. Those with negative emotions tend to eat unhealthy food in an effort to experience the instant gratification that comes with it, even if only short-lived.[10]”](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6747656327125638281936_0_243673f2a181599544218f09505370f7.jpg?o=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&h=ce26e2448822c176e5be030add11d190)
