This blog is about the review of food through the lens of poetry and books. In the preparing and eating, this blog is the criticism of sources and tastes. But in the gathering and giving, significantly this blog is the denouement metamorphosis of nature to cuisine, and conversation. And listening.
The podcast on the radio today, On Being with Krista Tippett, was an interview of Isabel Wilkerson, historian and acclaimed non-fiction author whose literary style comes from the poetic tradition. Her book of the same “title” (extracted from the works of the poet and civil rights writer Richard Wright) is about empathy: “to be inside someone’s life… and this is to be differentiated from pity, who looks down and feels sorry; and not sympathy, who looks from a distance but detached.” Empathy is to inhabit pain, and to be that pain. It’s not understanding, it’s knowing. But it is more than the capacity to know: as more the capacity to love your neighbor.
Richard Wright wrote: “I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown… I was taking a part of me to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps— just perhaps — to bloom.” Ms. Tippett said: “The great migration gave the world a bounty of brilliance while also planting harder foundations that continue to touch on every American in some way.”
The metaphor photographs of the blog is the blooming of “what it means to be human.” And in this food blog it embodies the flourishing of a beautiful story as the seed of intelligence and challenge for all of us to help plant, and realize this much, that it could be now, for all human race.
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