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Tinned Fish Think Tank
Writing and recipes straight from the Sobremesa Kitchen.
Hello and welcome to the Tinned Fish Think Tank! This newsletter is a series of musings on food and recipe ideas from a twenty something baker turned remote worker with a simultaneous contempt for macaroni in a box and distaste for liberal elitism (AKA tweezer cuisine).
MFK Fisher, an eminent female food writer (and an attendee of my imaginary dinner party) wrote in 1943, “it seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.”
It is with this eloquent observation in mind that I seek to explore the intersection of body and mind, how the way we eat alters the way we think, and the importance of being open to something unfamiliar – whether it be a new ingredient or an unpalatable opinion. At the end of the day, we all have to eat.
Pickled Rhubarb and Fennel Salad
To me, the real start to spring is when I get my hands on those first few stalks of rhubarb. As kids, we would yank the rhubarb from the still-hard soil whenever it had turned from greenish pink to deep red – a raw delicacy for a child who had no palette or desire for anything except the accompanying bowl of sugar.
Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Galette
On getting in touch with your food.
The Tinned Fish Philosophy
The philosophy behind Tin Fish Think Tank and the weekly ‘Freezer Food’ Segment.