Self Made Fortune Cookies and Ginger Chews 🥠
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Hi there!
I did not expect having so much sweet stuff this week.
Well, enjoy!
Piero
✹Ernesto Sábato, El túnel.
Dumplings in space
First, thanks to Tostoini for that. What do we have here? A multiverse sci-fi where quantum mechanics breaks the laws of physics — and a family meal of dim sum might be the only thing holding two sisters together. Ellie's mother is in a coma, her cousin has found a device that keeps her alive while destabilizing reality, and the engineers who run the universe's machinery may be rewriting the rules for personal gain. Family drama dressed in speculative fiction, with dry humor, emotional weight, and dumplings.
The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu
→ Shortplot: 🚀 🪐 🥢 🥟
Obsessive preservation is good
This week's theme: music. Not because we're sandwiched between an overhyped Coachella, nor for the TikTok protests about how much food costs there, nor for the photo of Katy Perry and the former Canadian Prime Minister eating noodles while in love (though — how cool is that?).
Music, I said.
For 40 years, Aadam Jacobs brought a cassette recorder to concerts nobody else was documenting. Over 10,000 shows — Nirvana before Grohl, Björk before Björk was Björk, Phish in 1990. All of it is now on Internet Archive, free to stream and download.
There's a pre-fame Nirvana recording where About a Girl gets three claps from the audience.
It's a story about obsessive preservation — the kind of quiet, unglamorous labor that keeps culture alive. Not unlike the person who writes down their grandmother's recipe before it disappears. The archivist as an act of love.
Don't get stuff get lost in time.
🥠 Make your own fortune, bake Fortune Cookies at Home (★recipe) 🌈 34 Vibrant Dessert Ideas (★recipe) 🍿 Popcorn Praliné: professional pastry logic, home kitchen effort (★recipe) 🍰 Red Velvet Cheesecake (★recipe)🥙 La kebbé de tomate de Carla Rebeiz (★recipe) 🫚 Some Homemade Ginger Chews (★recipe) 🍗 Bobby Brown fried chicken in cocaine when he was 10 🥪 100 Best Sandwiches in the World (Bánh mì appears too many times) 🦠 Your roommate can influence your gut bacteria 🍝 Pasta Tiramisù? Meh (★recipe) 🥕How we fell for carrot propaganda (video)
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📺 Re: free streaming. I've been enjoying Japanese Film Festival Online (JFF+): I watched a couple of good movies and docs last week. Food related: a documentary portrait of Tokyo's legendary fish market and a mellow story about tea ceremony. Bonus: the super romantic Time Traveller-The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. But you can find stuff about bonsai, karaoke and ink painting too.
Why Cookbooks Are the Next Frontier for Narrative Writing
Emmeline Clein / Cultured
Ella Quittner and Tanya Bush discuss their new cookbooks, which lean into the intricate subjectivity of food culture, instead of its algorithm-friendly optimization.
