Archive for October, 2008
Lavishing Memories
Oh, now please! This Piggy Bread is so impossibly cute. The woman in charge of this and other outrageous culinary fare, Lucky Sundae, should be given a medal for kitchen tolerance above and beyond the call of duty. She makes many of her creations (like the bento box one I looked at a few posts ago) for her children.
Just how appreciative her children are of her efforts remains moot. Some children do dig this sort of attention being lavished on their food. Others…meh. My own son falls in the ‘meh’ group more often than not.
In working on Cake, the latest play of mine, more recently I have been exploring what it is to want to give your children extremely beautiful memories of their mother’s food. It’s like a chronic deep-seated need in many women I know; the need to lavish. It’s really ridiculously primal. I’ve been know to hurriedly whip up an entire chocolate cake at 3pm, having it iced and waiting for Jack for his return from day care. He has a slice, then runs off, thanks Mum.
It’s not just food either. The urge runs to making clothes memories, toy memories, book memories, the lot. I’m making a quilt for Jack made up of fabric he chose. I’m hand sewing this quilt on time that I don’t have. We live in the tropics and we certainly do not require a quilt any more than one week a year or the odd sick day. But it is the thought, the look, the memory that I am chasing on his behalf. Madness.
But don’t get me wrong. It is a wonderful madness. It is a pleasing one to me. Perhaps 10% of what I do in this regard will seep through to his long-term memory. That 10%, how precious!
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