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Passing Blood, Consuming Memories: Making Fish Cutlets with Amma
Mythri Jegathesan
As a child, I never thought twice about consuming the newspaper ink and wood-pulp fibers that bled into the cutlets’ pre-fried insides and bristly, deep-fried outsides. Pulp and ink were just two more ingredients in my childhood, unmeasured but always present. Newspapers accompanied food as intimately as the background noise of mourning and uncertainty filtered through my amma and appa’s hushed tones and loud cries on telephone calls with loved ones back home.
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 16, 2022
Subjects
Food & Cooking, Southeast Asia, Memory, Family, Motherhood and Reproduction, Covid-19