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Allusionist 103. Food Into Words - transcript

August 6, 2019 The Allusionist
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FELICITY CLOAKE: It's very nerveracking because people spend money on ingredients, they may be cooking it for a special occasion, they try to impress a date or whatever - there's a lot that can go wrong with food and it's quite a weighty responsibility to be responsible someone's dinner or their birthday cake or whatever; it is a big deal.

RACHEL GREENHAUS: If it's a cookbook for family use, you're going to write it differently than if it's a cookbook for expert bakers and figuring out how to get the recipe that's right for that.

MIMI AYE: It's very different from cooking in real life, I think. Which is weird because you're trying to tell people how to cook the dish. 

RACHEL GREENHAUS: It would be really easy to show you, but it's hard to describe in language.

MIMI AYE: Yeah, it's a complete nightmare.

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In transcript Tags words, language, linguistics, education, comedy, entertainment, society & culture, arts, literature, Helen Zaltzman, etymology, lexicon, vocabulary, bricole, food, cooking, cookery, eating, recipes, home ec, cookbooks, cookery books, glamorous sludge, MiMi Aye, Felicity Cloake, Rachel Greenhaus, America’s Test Kitchen, editing, manual, actions into words, senses into words, baking, culinary, appetite, measurements, instructions, books, constraints, publishing, photos, food photography, visuals, video, design, ingredients, senses, vegan, comparisons, breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, snacks, creative, practical, pictures, illustrations, Burma, Burmese, meals

Allusionist 84. Trammels - transcript

September 7, 2018 The Allusionist
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ROSS SUTHERLAND: We're taught from a young age to be good sports at losing games. Sportsmanship as a concept is all about being a good loser. And yet we're terrified of the concept of losing art. It's a horrible thing to try and to put yourself out there and for it to fail. So if you can reframe it as a game then all the better.

HZ: Because if you fail again you've just failed at the game and not at art entirely.

ROSS SUTHERLAND: Yeah, exactly. You fail at the game, but then you can play again. it's less of a referendum on your own self-worth if you just lose a game, because we play games all the time and so we're very comfortable with our odds. Whereas I feel when it when it comes to art the odds feel a little bit more important, and they shouldn't.

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