Broken Yolk

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Thursday 18 November 2010

Good-bye proverbial Mud Pie



"old folks say, ya poor little fool" 
- Runaways

Some experiences are just informing – going to university say, traveling, or appearing on a national tv series called Masterchef. But these are just catalysts; everything else comes unbidden. For most people growing up means getting a job, money, and not gyrating to house music as much as they used to. For others its means something different. When getting a job is impossible and claiming the dole is even harder, and you feel yourself slipping back into disaffected youth. This is my generation; squatting where they can and living at home when the rent money or couches wear out. Or at least this is me…

Since graduating from Oxford University in July I’ve had a strange run. Blinded by that tenuous invincibility of the post-university naive, I launched myself onto the terrifying trapeze that I call life. My attempts to navigate a swamp of a recession, festering with unemployment and instability, have led me to some interesting places. I got as far as Mexico. Learning to live; sink or swim.

Same old, maybe. But this time, there were recipes. Edible memories, like the mud pie I once cooked on Masterchef, but with childhood left behind, 25k of students loans behind…

The tales they tell should, at the very least, be mouth-watering.

4 comments:

  1. Child of the eighties now facing austerity!
    We used to make do with porridge made with water,
    whats a smoked makerel?
    Child of the 50s

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  2. Hi 80's girl get real your generation are cool but cumfortable and have sauce with thier porrage in my time no such luxury! Shoe box, middle off and all that. Rest loks mummy esp the chocolate balls but why not mud pie - I love it!

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  3. I'll admit to being overly dramatic! but the fact is that u were born at the birth of consumerism and my generation is now facing its mutated offspring... As for the mud pie, I'll post the recipe soon!

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  4. Im nervously contemplating attempting the porridge and smoked mackeral combination. I need dutch courage. P.S. any chances of a cook book in the future ?

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