humanity
Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of chefs, professionals, amateurs, inspiring youth, influencers, and general feel good human stories in the Feast food sphere.
Food, Family, and Traditions
Baking sweets has always been a big part of my life. Thinking back to when I was a child...baking with my mom and family provides happy memories for me. I do not remember most of my childhood, from the age of 4 until I was 12. BUT, I do recall Christmas Eve gatherings with my family and all of the cooking and baking we did together.
By Food Writer - Deanna Martinez-Bey5 years ago in Feast
Guacamole
He roared with frustration as he scratched and scabbed at his beard. The magpie just looked at him balefully – used to such frequent outbursts. ‘Bloody, freaken heck’ he screamed. Knowing that hardly a soul resided nearby who could hear him. Who would even care anyway? After all those countless years of prepping, so sure of himself that disaster of one type or another was impending, did he ever stop to think about the pain, agony, and daily frustration of facial hair left to grow unkempt? No. And now not a razor could be found within walking distance on his corner of the face of the planet. He was shaggy, itchy, lonely, and hungry. ‘What a life’ he grumbled.
By Katie Hooper5 years ago in Feast
47 Tomatoes
Lockdown came too early for spring. At least, too early for the vast majority of gardeners. I had already made several trips to the nuirsery to stock up. As was my wont in the early months of the year, soil improver had been scattered and forked in across the sizeable expanse of 7 raised beds that made up my vegetable plot. Whilst at the age of 66 I was still going to the gym twice a week, I found digging brought an additional aerobic buzz to a crisp February morning.
By Al Campbell5 years ago in Feast
For the Love of Pies
Art has a therapeutic quality associated with it. Growing up I appreciated arts, and participated in many different forms, including ceramics, scrapbooking, sewing, and baking. When I was younger, these crafts allowed me to connect with myself and others in a similar way that my sister could with sports. But, as I grew older, baking provided me with a much deeper value, than just a mere connection to myself and others. Last March, making pies gave me the healing and happiness I so desperately needed and longed for after being sexually assaulted.
By Jamie Waters5 years ago in Feast
Let Them Eat Cake
Each year my imagination and creativity is given the opportunity to dance in the world of whimsical beauty creating intentionally "home-made" looking cakes for the people I love. I'm not a professional cake decorator by any means, though I do love creating new works of art and I've been doing this since my eldest daughter turned 1, 13years ago.
By Donna Raymond5 years ago in Feast
Baking the stress away
Everyone has hobbies, something they love to do to relieve stress or pass the time. Sometimes those hobbies pay off by becoming a lucrative business, sometimes they do not. Either way having a hobby is good especially if you are having fun and being creative. My sister is very creative and has all kinds of things that she dabbles in; she can paint, sculpt, draw, sew and crochet. My best friend makes jewelry out of flowers and resin and is also a professional photography. Even my child is crafty by drawing, painting and making things out of paper. Most crafting hobbies have something in common, scissors! Scissors help to cut and shape things when crafting. Some don’t know or realize it but my hobby includes scissors too.
By Rebecca Hackney5 years ago in Feast
Mise En Place - Everything In Its Place
I am a woman. I grew up in India. And when you put both these words in the context of Indian culture, the equation is Woman + Indian = Cooking. As a girl, society expects you to learn cooking by the time you are of age so that when the time comes to find a groom, this qualification is complete. Cooking is a must-have criterion for marriage eligibility. Indian moms feel they have done right if their daughter can cook a full Indian dinner by the time she is sixteen. To quantify this, let me present you the number of rotis (the equivalent of naan) that my mom made in her life for my family. Ten rotis every day for four people for 40 years on average comes to 584,000 - and this is a conservative estimate.
By Anu Sundaram5 years ago in Feast
