Funny what happens when you don’t have time to consult Chowhound. Things work out, somehow. I had worked night and day to carve out time to get to Eugene for the Console-ing Passions Conference. I had to rely on local knowledge, and the culinary sensibilities of fellow-academics. The first evening of the conference, I…
Granola, like the music of Bruce Cockburn and the seductive subliminal possibilities of The Vegetarian Epicure Cookbook, was my ticket out. Out of the suburbs, out of childhood, out of normativity. Granola. It was so hard to get, when you lived on Featherston Drive in Ottawa in 1975. I had to smuggle it past…
“The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible. “ It was French philosopher Michel Foucault, I think, who coined the term ‘heterotopia.’ A space that is both real and imaginary. Not freely accessible.A space that is other. “..the boat is a floating…