Thank you for kind words during this uncertain time. If eating cake can bring us peace then so be it. I live near a large international grocery store in Atlanta that I love to visit and I am so beside myself at what might happen to them. What a heartbreaking time we are in. Stay strong and eat cake!
As an American who has lived her whole life in Switzerland, I am shocked and in despair over the lies, crimes and disregard for process being perpetrated today by our government.
Your writing about cake will be far from trivial: it will certainly portray, as your writing does, human experience in all its variety and healthy relativity, based on facts (how many eggs, which sugar) but leaving space for diversity, personal taste and regional variety. This is what we need now.
The thing here is that we are reeling…. the assaults on so many important things, arts, of all sorts, medicine, science, and yes, trade and, by extension , foods and community, are dizzying. Yet… this post is I hope one of many going forward. Speaking out and resisting in the ways we can, which are not easy to find for sure, is a step in the right direction.
I agree with so much of this...except for the claim that the North American economic structure "was working." It was working for the affluent and no one else. I truly hope that the Democrats can quickly realize how impossible life feels in this country for anyone who has to earn a wage to survive, who doesn't own a home, who doesn't have access to so-called generational wealth. This "anyone" includes so many of us who work in the food business.
I agree with your criticism of my saying that the North American economic structure has been “working”; I wrote oversimply. I was thinking in comparison with what has just been launched.
Amen and thank you from a grateful longtime reader in Phoenix. I’d like to say something clever about food and longer tables but I’m so very sad and it all sounds twee in the face of such cruel realpolitik. (I may just run around muttering little more than ‘holy forking shirtballs’ until we work our way out of The Bad Place.) You nailed it here. <3 Be well and looking forward to cake.
Sharing a meal — anywhere in the world — with new or old friends is its own gift and reward, especially when it is the language shared at that meal. I share your sentiments, and thanks!
Thanks Edward and Nuri for your words. Here in Australia we are wondering when the same idiocy might be levelled at us too. It is very unsettling to see what the Trump administration is, and may yet be planning both within and beyond the USA. Here’s to friendships across the globe and an end to the madness which is unfolding.
Thanks Ed. As a Canadian and long-time reader of the magazine (and now the Substack), this means a lot. It's been a grim weekend. It's going to be a grim winter. But hopefully the friendships we have and share across what we used to proudly describe as the world's longest undefended border will persist and, in time, prevail. And in the interim, coffee and cake may be just what is needed.
Thank you.
Much appreciated
Thank you for kind words during this uncertain time. If eating cake can bring us peace then so be it. I live near a large international grocery store in Atlanta that I love to visit and I am so beside myself at what might happen to them. What a heartbreaking time we are in. Stay strong and eat cake!
Thank you !
As an American who has lived her whole life in Switzerland, I am shocked and in despair over the lies, crimes and disregard for process being perpetrated today by our government.
Your writing about cake will be far from trivial: it will certainly portray, as your writing does, human experience in all its variety and healthy relativity, based on facts (how many eggs, which sugar) but leaving space for diversity, personal taste and regional variety. This is what we need now.
Thanks! We all need to continue to speak up against the absurdity. Never give up; never give in!
Merci
Bravo, Ed! These are strong words and I know you don't speak them lightly, but they are so necessary. Thank you!
The thing here is that we are reeling…. the assaults on so many important things, arts, of all sorts, medicine, science, and yes, trade and, by extension , foods and community, are dizzying. Yet… this post is I hope one of many going forward. Speaking out and resisting in the ways we can, which are not easy to find for sure, is a step in the right direction.
Write and keep writing.
Thank you for your words from Australia. I weep and am horrified by these actions of betrayal and the breaking of trust.
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I agree with so much of this...except for the claim that the North American economic structure "was working." It was working for the affluent and no one else. I truly hope that the Democrats can quickly realize how impossible life feels in this country for anyone who has to earn a wage to survive, who doesn't own a home, who doesn't have access to so-called generational wealth. This "anyone" includes so many of us who work in the food business.
I agree with your criticism of my saying that the North American economic structure has been “working”; I wrote oversimply. I was thinking in comparison with what has just been launched.
Amen and thank you from a grateful longtime reader in Phoenix. I’d like to say something clever about food and longer tables but I’m so very sad and it all sounds twee in the face of such cruel realpolitik. (I may just run around muttering little more than ‘holy forking shirtballs’ until we work our way out of The Bad Place.) You nailed it here. <3 Be well and looking forward to cake.
Thanks! Someone needs to speak up! I am disgusted by this idiot. Terry Cox
Sharing a meal — anywhere in the world — with new or old friends is its own gift and reward, especially when it is the language shared at that meal. I share your sentiments, and thanks!
Thanks Edward and Nuri for your words. Here in Australia we are wondering when the same idiocy might be levelled at us too. It is very unsettling to see what the Trump administration is, and may yet be planning both within and beyond the USA. Here’s to friendships across the globe and an end to the madness which is unfolding.
Thanks Ed. As a Canadian and long-time reader of the magazine (and now the Substack), this means a lot. It's been a grim weekend. It's going to be a grim winter. But hopefully the friendships we have and share across what we used to proudly describe as the world's longest undefended border will persist and, in time, prevail. And in the interim, coffee and cake may be just what is needed.