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"In #NewYorkCity, where apartments are crowded side-by-side and top-to-bottom like so many Jenga blocks, histories often overlap. I’m standing in front of a stately brownstone in #Harlem that used to house Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, an eatery and jazz joint where Art Tatum used to play, and where Charlie Parker, Malcolm X, and Redd Foxx all worked in the 1940s.

Today, that very same space is home to Tsion Cafe, the only #restaurant in #NewYork City serving #Ethiopian #Jewish #food. I have an appointment to #cook with the restaurant’s owner, Beejhy Barhany. Her work as a #chef, writer, and organizer has taught Americans that the stories of #Africans and #Jews have done more than coincide over time. They’re inseparable."

forward.com/food/755047/beejhy

The Forward · Harlem's queen of Ethiopian Jewish cuisine knows that the histories of Jews and Africans are inseparableFor Beejhy Barhany, chef, cookbook author, and owner of Tsion Cafe in Harlem , the histories of Jews and Africans are inseparable.
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Quester 🌤️🌈:heart_pan: :enb:

#introduction update for my second Mastodon anniversary!

I'm a #nonbinary #transmasc #lgbtqia person in my late 30s, I live in #Finland and pretty much toot in English.

I've been with my partner @apzpins for over 16 years, we run a #pinball arcade together as a hobby. We have two elderly #cats who also get shared on here on the occasion.

I play a lot of #VideoGames, especially #RPGs and post about my progress, usually with pictures or videos.

I enjoy #travel, I've been to 13 different countries so far. I also enjoy meeting people from all around the world.

I do a lot of #crafts especially when the weather is bad. I #knit, #crochet and #CrossStitch

I'm a #chef by profession, I love good #food and great #coffee. I've been working at a student cafe on a uni campus for almost 7 years.

I like #cycling and try to keep some sort of condition with it. We have pretty good cycling routes in my home town. Photo evidence is shared on the occasion.

If you read this far, and share interests, give me a follow 😁

Kirsten Bock💫

Der Kanzler hadert mit der Gleichberechtigung. Wirtschaftlich betrachtet leider schlecht. Denn Gleichberechtigung steigert Effizienz. Für einen Wirtschaftskanzler sollte dies Bedeutung haben.
#chef:innensache

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Cherry Season is here! Three bags of perfect firm dark cherries, pitted. One 750ML bottle of Uncle Nearest 1856 Tennessee Whiskey (100 Proof), slightly diluted Sage Honey + sugar + water, and 5½ clean liter mason bottles. Alcohol preserves the fruit so it doesn't need heat treatment; just fill and cover, but don't dilute the alcohol too much. After two to three months marinating, ready to taste. Longer is fine. Makes a fine cherry cordial! Spoon on ice cream.

Vodka, Gin, or other high proof liquor will do. Hemingway would love this!

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#Cooking #Chef #Cherry #Cherries #Author #Writer #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #Recipe #whiskey #bourbon

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Hey now... maybe it's just possible to leave people the fuck alone?! Yeesh.

"Zachary Neman, a #Jewish #chef of #Iranian descent known for his polished yet accessible #recipes on Instagram, is used to answering questions about #cooking—not #geopolitics. But the escalating conflict between #Israel and #Iran has pulled him into the spotlight, with followers pressuring him to take a public stance on the #war.

Neman, who lives in #NewYork with his family, rose to online fame with his tagline “recipes you'll wanna #cook,” gaining over one million followers thanks to visually refined #MiddleEastern and family-inspired dishes. He often references his Iranian roots and occasionally his Jewish heritage but avoids political commentary."

ynetnews.com/culture/article/h

ynetnews · Iranian Jewish celebrity chef under fire for silence on Israel-Iran warBy Yaniv Pohoryles
Paul Chambers🚧

Anne Burrell, celebrity chef, dead at age 55.

Anne W. Burrell (September 21, 1969 – June 17, 2025) was an American chef, television personality, and former instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education.

She was the host of the Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and co-host of Worst Cooks in America. She was in several versions of the Iron Chefs franchise.

#tv #chef #cooking #Food #FoodNetwork #RealityTV #RIP .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bur

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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.05.25 — How does photography shape your perception of the world? What subjects or moments do you find most captivating to capture?

Taking a few semesters of drawing shaped my photography and my perception of the world. When you need to manufacture the illusion of depth in a flat medium by hand on blank paper, you learn to see shadows and highlight, not just the subject. In my sketch and drawing class, working with pencil and charcoal, I learned to focus on the shadows and darkness in rendering volume and a 3D effect. In my color class, I learned I could do a similar thing using color, creating "color contrast" between the tonal qualities of the colors. I worked in pastels, chalks, and with colored pencils.

It was when I used my first digital camera, that I finally got to tie it all together in my photography, which was poor and snap-shoddy before. See the image of my Nikon Coolpix 950. A beast for the time. See #AltText for more details.

When I could take a picture and immediately see the 2D effects of color, shadow, highlight, aperture, and shutter speed, it changed my perception of the world. Whilst that camera was rudimentary, later digital cameras and then DSLRs allowed me full and simple manual control, to learn to see the picture I might capture before even lifting the camera, or even reaching for it. Not any Hollywood shtick where I see photo frames superimposed on the world, but my subconscious does draw me to focus here, there, and over there. Experience. Playing with the controls. Being able to delete any number of failures rather than paying for rolls of film and processing 36 images having forgotten what I had done to capture the good ones.

Don't read me wrong. I still post-process most images. And. I shoot RAW. If you're a serious photographer, it is a must.

I am attracted, as you might guess, to color contrast. I admit to taking lots of pictures of flowers and trees, but old buildings are also my thing. I am complemented on my portraiture all the time. Oh, right, and... Recently, I've been taking lots of pictures of the meals I've cooked, doing both in-process documentation and, having paid special attention to plating, the final result.

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Beim #Dienstleister die Bereitstellung, Verkabelung und Installation von APs beauftragt. Vor Monaten.
Heute kamen zwei Herren, aber ohne Geräte und Kabel. Nur mit Plan (immerhin), Leiter und Bohrmaschine.
Sie waren nett, hab ihnen nen Kaffee besorgt. Ihr #Chef erklärte mir am Telefon allerdings, dass es ja klar sei, dass es schief geht, wenn man eine #Frau (mich) mit #IT beschäftige.
Ich habe nur gefragt:“Warum? Weil Sie bei Aufträgen von Frauen grundsätzlich die Hälfte vergessen?!“
Mich würde ja interessieren, wie er gegenüber einem Mann reagiert hätte.

#frauenalltag#WLAN#sexismus
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.06 — Talk To Me Day. Featured creator: Lydia VVinters ( @HeliaXyana ) #TTMD

It's now April 6th in London, so here's my question:

I see a lot of imagery on your website (lydiavvinters.com). How to you characterize yourself as a creator? A poet? An Artist? What do you focus on?

Also, is your last name of your pen name intentionally a double-V so it looks like a W (double-U)?

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Lydia VvintersLydia VvintersEclectic Witch
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#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr

@crcollins

What is your favorite thing you've written & why? 😊

You b evil!

My main characters tend to get sorely abused and pummeled by reality. Twice as much work for half the credit, right? All so the moment of victory can be bittersweet and worth it. There's this one scene; I'll endeavor to minimize spoilers.

The setup: She had finally found friendship and love. Previously injured, she still ends up saving her lover (okay, one of her two lovers), and saving the life of her assassin, too, and died. Thought she had, only to wake, barely healed, to find the other antagonist had had them arrested and undone the good she'd done to prevent a foreseeable war.

The denouement: Though wit and persuasion, and the loyalty of the people she's protected, she proves everything she's said is right, literally causing the antagonist to throw her helmet on the ground in frustrated resignation. Clang! It does mean she reveals she's pregnant, because that's one of the keys, and has to agree to bare the child…

It's the intensity of the emotions and the integrity this cynical character displays that grips me. I can hardly believe I wrote it.

That goes equally for a more recent work. One of the MCs is male, and I usually can't relate enough to men to make them work as male in the story. He's different, as is the world he lives in. How he ends up noticing the woman antagonist's hidden anguish and solves the problem, in an albeit naïve but heartfelt uniquely male manner, has left me beside myself. It's one of the few times a male character might be carrying the story instead of his female co-MC.

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#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr

@gahlearner @saposcat

  1. When do you write your cookbook? 😁

Probably never. However, if you follow me I show photos of my cooking, and sometime share enough of a recipe for those who cook to follow. When I get my act together and make an author website, I may have a RS Cooks section with this stuff. Remember, you need to keep people returning to your website over years so they remain aware of your new books!

  1. Do you bake (like that) too? I mean, I'm a lousy cook but when I cook I often improvise too. But never with baking.

I used to bake. I had two breadmaker machines! But I am very much low-carb now. (It's why I substitute cauliflower for rice in my paella, for example.) I have to watch my salt intake, too. My pork chop on the bed of kale, onions, butter, pecorino, and edamame linguine was low-carb. The edamame pasta has 1/5th the carbs of regular pasta, much of them as fiber instead. It has a better taste and a similar mouth feel, too.

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@HeliaXyana

[I] fear sending my female MC into the kitchen as it might be considered anti feminist. Are there any key aspects I could keep in mind to avoid this?

It is all about the point you are trying to make.

All cultures cook.

Sure, she could be trapped by her gender role; it can be the only creativity she's allowed; you can emphasize subservience and frustration that leads to a break. That's one story. Or the kitchen could be a solace she escapes into, a place where she can stop fighting and eat by herself where nobody will judge her cooking her mother's recipes as weakness.

For me, feminist writing is about self-determination and agency contrasted against either the gender roles in the story or in those in the reader's head. As a writer, you must entertain. That doesn't mean you can't enlighten.

My current story breaks the rules. She's a fighter, but learns it works better when she works with the system instead of against it. She marries because she has to, but does get the pick of the litter. Gorgeous. She has five children, all girls. She even cooks for her husband, whom she adores, but we get that scene is a special occasion. What's important is she's also escaped being a housewife to become an engineer (her dream) on colonial Mars, and her specific efforts shapes that world's female future (and maybe ours). Along with her woman friends and her girls, the reader watches gender roles melt to insignificance..

To answer your question: Assert what's true for the character in her quest to become more than she's allotted. The fear you feel is you imagining other people's judgement. Feminist writers always make somebody angry.

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