I Read Stories: Knife Skills by Samantha Franks
In which some culinary students are shown a video of how to use a knife. This causes some discussion leading to the teacher over-thinking how their husband left them. Or not thinking about it. Something like that.
“...so instead I say, “that’s savage,”
because that’s what kids say now and it thrills them when teachers use it right
like a mustachioed walrus clapping, like a draft horse kicking a field goal.”
That’s a good line, captures exactly when I was a teaching assistant and for a moment was a little bit cool in front of the kids.
Read This: For a tiny look at knives and using them and how you can’t cut bits out of your life
Don’t Read This: If cooking is not a metaphor for relationships
