Joining forces with our own mighty Companion Bakeshop, BSSC will host Smitten Kitchen blogger Deb Perelman (beyond popular! this woman gets millions of views a month!) this SUNDAY November 4 at 7pm.
Get there early and sample some of Perelman’s recipes, courtesy of the baking team of Companion Bakeshop. For details, go here.
Why are “we” highlighting a cook from Manhattan? Why aren’t “we” talking about real-life cooks, chefs and writers right here on the Central Coast of California? Yes, I know that “we” do that from time to time, but that “work” is pretty well damaged by celebrify-ing “elsewhere” and bringing it “here”.
That problem is the collapse of local cultures due to media mediations of “reality” that occur “elsewhere”, but are brought “here” to take up space better used if occupied by real people, cooks, chefs, etc. right HERE.
This is not a criticism of BSSC or the author. This is a criticism of writers and media which substitute simulacra from “elsewhere” and distort what’s right here by imposing the “celebrifications” of the “other” on our local culture.
Some writers gush about the “culture” of NYC. Yes, NYC has what it calls a “culture”, and as an aside, thinks is the ONLY culture worth having. Media and mediation pushes this process. From where I sit-stand-think right HERE, this “culture” of NYC is alien, and has nothing to do with me or MY culture.
Why is this being imposed?
This KILLS the local and the real.
Roger,
Time for you to write a book, any subject, content unimportant and I will gift you with the title “Guaranteed Cure for Insomia” It might only offer temporary relief but that’s O.K. it’s sure to be an enormous success and I’m certain you would be delighted to tour ( locally of course) in support and offer those poor sufferers that cannot afford to buy your book the chance to benefit for free by attending. Imagine their profound gratitude after trying a myriad of failed remedies at being put to blissful sleep just minutes after you begin to speak, what a (local) hero you could be and I’m sure the invitations to repeat the event would come flooding in.
It wouldn’t have to be a long book naturally, just a chapter or two and of course there would be no confrontation or arguments because your audience would gratefully sleeping through most of what you would have to say. Please act on this suggestion soon, it’s your destiny, what you were born to do.
LDR