These days, more often than not, I’m missing thoughts to write in this blog. Sure, week by week I’ve scrape together sentences… and there’s usually something glinting in them, something sharp, familiar. That’s what I’m searching for when I’m writing: the thing that cuts through into other realities, making what I write meaningful beyond, well, me. But it’s not like … Read More >>
Gardening is a great metaphor to mix with business, particularly when you’re tending a business like Wandering Cooks. I didn’t follow traditional business models when I created this place the first time round, and we won’t in its next incarnation either, so please excuse the tangle of gardening and business as I make my point grow. Gardening like we do … Read More >>
I would be lost without them. Even with all there is to learn from family, and the slogging away in kitchens many of us have done, to cook without cookbooks feels like… isolation. Cookbooks are crystallisations, explosions of elaborate possibilities. They riff on themes or focus on methods and cultures. They explore fusions and personalities. They give access to restaurants … Read More >>
Every year, one of our lovely (and most stylish) customers lets us know she’s finally done all she can with her cumquat glut. And every year, I can’t say no. I refuse to let go of the preserver in me. Just because I’ve got no time to stand around slicing them for marmalade or scooping out their pulp with a … Read More >>
Business owners share some desires with artists. They start businesses because they’re perfectionists. Control freaks. They hope to dictate forms of expression, without compromise. They want freedom. But the urge to HAVE a business is different than the DOING of business. The doing requires us to breathe life into something that might not respond to our control. Why? Because the … Read More >>
At Wandering Cooks, we care so much about what meat our world eats. Why? It feels almost droll to say, because it’s been said so many times before. Fuck it I’ll say it anyway… most meat is produced in utter, mind blowing cruelty. And every individual’s buying decisions either support or reject this cruelty. There is too much suffering, too … Read More >>
As my search for another venue begins, I think back to when I was first hatching my business dreams 7 years ago. Back then, I wasn’t dreaming up an incubator like Wandering Cooks. I wanted a cafe, a garden, a meeting place, a community, a food production space, but not an incubator exactly. Mathew (my loving partner who I love … Read More >>
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