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Much like Ode to True Caramel, How To Condense Milk is a tribute to the delicious treats and sweet sauces that are most often no longer made patiently by hand but bought in cans and packages.
I enjoy evocative and tasteful food writing and have often entertained thoughts of trying my hand at writing where words intersect with food. When I sit down to write about the gastronomical me, it is mostly poetry and prose that flows. I go with it.
I love making time sensitive concoctions that require hands-on attention. I am involved in the process, putting myself into the confection, totally present.
Being present is an art. It is a practice in the consciousness of now. It is acknowledgement of not the past or future but the powerful of the present. My best writing comes when I do not struggle over the first stanza or fight with the last but simply write as one might dance to music that moves.
If you can clear your plate and sit down to your writing with an empty mind, consider allowing yourself to be absorbed by writing, to really let it be the only thing in your mind. Let the words fill you.
I invite you to enjoy How To Condense Milk and savor it as you might a taste of something delicious and fleeting.
I entice a fluffy cloud to rise above the
Silver rim of my grandmother’s pot by
Whisking until my wrist falls off,
Until the hands on my broken clock stop . . . please continue reading here and share your beautiful thoughts!
Painting: The Milk Maid by Johannes Vermeer (c1660).
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