Introduction
“Appetite and desire are part of human nature.”
After so many serious discussions, we shared mooncakes and hotpot over Mid-Autumn. Someone suggested that we might as well talk about food.
And so we have this week’s topic.
Culture & Everyday Life
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Date and time: Sep 27, 2024 (Fri) 7:30PM
Location: 16595 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA 98052 (Eastline Apartment 3F Clubroom)
Topic: Let’s Talk About Food
Capacity: 15 people, including five observers
— Schedule —
Arrival and seating
Opening and participant introductions: briefly share a recent book, film, program, or piece of music you enjoyed (3 minutes each).
Sharing session: food, through a book, documentary, recipe, or anything else you would like to bring (5–10 minutes each).
Group photo
— Registration —
https://forms.gle/SVSpMxaLJTT4VBq39
Please use the registration link above.
Registration order is determined by the link above.
Your email address is used to send the apartment access code and instructions.
After registering, add the assistant on WeChat to join the event group.
📌 Include “book club” in your friend request.
Find the account “别处读书会” on Xiaohongshu.
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— Notes from Xiaowan —
No grand ambitions just now: I have been craving the pork-trotter rice from home. The best part is letting the trotters cool into aspic. I have also been longing for rice noodle rolls, though those are much harder to recreate…
For centuries, food has traveled with people, changing along the way. However far we go, the taste of home remains familiar and persistent in memory.
It is like a system of orientation through taste: one end locates us far from home, while the other remains attached to the place we remember.
About Elsewhere Book Club
Elsewhere Book Club
The name Elsewhere comes from Milan Kundera’s Life Is Elsewhere.
Life Is Elsewhere.
We seem more inclined to imagine a golden age when looking backward or forward. Yet, in my own life, this moment and elsewhere have become inseparable, each giving meaning to the other.
Live fully in this moment. The search for elsewhere also takes place here and now.
I arrived in Seattle recently. In an unfamiliar place, my first impulse was to start a small book club, perhaps to meet others who find steadiness in books and enjoy sustained conversation.
Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed; a mustard seed holding Mount Sumeru.
I hope this small space can give us somewhere to exchange ideas each week.
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