{"id":516,"date":"2010-05-17T06:36:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2010-05-17T06:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:36:46","slug":"the-cooks-fingerprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/the-cooks-fingerprint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cook&#8217;s Fingerprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/5\/beachwgrandma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"324\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perfect Weekend<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I tasted it, that\u2019s when I realized that my mother was dead,\u201d he said. \u201cI realized that I was never going to taste that dish again the way my mother made it. The person who makes the food \u2013 his physique, his soul \u2013 is unique. It\u2019s like fingerprints, or handwriting.\u201d \u2013 Musa Dagdeviren, quoted in \u201cThe Memory Kitchen\u201d by Elif Batuman in the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, April 19, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The article was about a man (Musa) who is trying to resurrect the food culture of Turkey. I thought about this quote on and off all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll always remember the taste of my mother\u2019s homemade baguettes, even though I haven\u2019t tasted bread in years. I hope Josie remembers me for my soup \u2013 turkey rice, chicken noodle, curried squash, carrot orange, split pea \u2013 all made from scratch with homemade stock.<\/p>\n<p>What food will you remember your mother or father for? What food will your children remember you for?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/5\/hermitcrabs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"324\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hermit crabs?<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/5\/throwingrocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"324\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The joy of throwing rocks never ends.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I tasted it, that\u2019s when I realized that my mother was dead,\u201d he said. \u201cI realized that I was never going to taste that dish again the way my mother made it. The person who makes the food \u2013 his physique, his soul \u2013 is unique. It\u2019s like fingerprints, or handwriting.\u201d \u2013 Musa Dagdeviren, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}