{"id":12139,"date":"2021-03-28T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2021-03-28T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T16:08:28","slug":"animism-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12139","title":{"rendered":"Animism in the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/monteverdechicago.com\/about\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monteverdechicago.com\/wp-content\/themes\/monteverde\/img\/about-the-chef.jpg?resize=189%2C189\" alt=\"Chef Sarah Grueneberg\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Sarah Grueneberg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was watching the cooking show <em>Simply Ming<\/em> on Friday, which is hosted by Boston chef Ming Tsai. He always has a guest chef \u2014 or occasionally his parents, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ming_Tsai#Personal_life\">who started him on his career<\/a> \u2014 and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ming.com\/sarah-grueneberg\">this episode,<\/a> his guest was a Chicagoan (via Texas), <a href=\"http:\/\/monteverdechicago.com\/about\/\">Sarah Grueneberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is showing him how to make the pasta dough for Tortilli Verdi, &#8220;her restaurant <a href=\"http:\/\/monteverdechicago.com\/\">Monteverde\u2019s<\/a> signature dish,&#8221; and at one point she says something like, &#8220;The pasta knows when you&#8217;re afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, I thought, not dough too! It&#8217;s alive in a yeasty sense, of course but it can sense your fear? Ah, the animist world \u2014so complicated! I reckon that is why we like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the cooking show Simply Ming on Friday, which is hosted by Boston chef Ming Tsai. He always has a guest chef \u2014 or occasionally his parents, who started him on his career \u2014 and in this episode, his guest was a Chicagoan (via Texas), Sarah Grueneberg. She is showing him how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,115],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animism","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-39N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1050,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1050","url_meta":{"origin":12139,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry with Atoms","author":"Chas S. 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