Blatantly Brown

“It's good to see art, to remember what a natural human impulse it has always been.”
― Lily King

“Most of us remember fondly our grandmothers' and mothers' kitchens but it can hardly be true that all of them enjoyed cooking. For most of history, and even today, cooking has not been a choice for women and, in the most extreme of cases, it has been the reason for their deaths. The luxury to be able to choose to cook is a class privilege. What to make of it, then?!”
― Claire Chambers, Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia

“My grandmother smiled at Ammi's simplicity. My mother, with her university degree, had learned that the world existed In binaries of sanity and madness, and was caught between her faith, which believed in both sorcery and creatures that morphed into cats, and modern rationality, to which these were but
collective hallucinations.”
― Claire Chambers, Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia

“I'm scared of men in cars and men in doorways, men in groups and men alone. They are menacing. Men-acing. Men-dacious. Men-tal.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers