Cooking up a story

Green Eggs

An exhibition at the Museum of Sydney has engaging displays about our relationship food culture through the ages. My favourite bit is a wall inviting people to ‘share thoughts, fondest food memories or a favourite recipe’. Drawings of cupcakes and declarations of love for one recipe or another sit side by side. There are shout outs for mum and there is disappointment at not being able to replicate a taste as experienced in the note writer’s land of their youth. Rich memories, the ingredients for cooking up a tale. What’s your favourite food story?

Chatterbox No. 8

orange girl
Scents and Nonsensibilty:
A three-year-old reveals her acute olfactory dysfunction


Camille:
 Your head smells like orange juice.

Me: Really? What does my chin smell like?

Camille: Lemon squeezy.

Me: What about my eye?

Camille: Sniff, sniff. Bananas! I smell your other eye, it smells like ham.

Me: And what about  …

Camille: I smell your ear now … sniff, sniff, sniff. Ha! Chocolate!