Comments on: the cumquat project http://foodmaidens.net/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:20:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hollis Skyles http://foodmaidens.net/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8741 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:43:55 +0000 http://foodmaidens.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8741 We always eagerly await reading your posts, i just used this website Swap my Seeds, as a way of giving away my unused seeds. Anyone know what I can sell them for? I have maybe 60 lobelia seeds left.

]]> By: anna http://foodmaidens.net/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8704 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:33:54 +0000 http://foodmaidens.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8704 hi jessie, thanks for visiting my blog…and glad my mushroom stories evoke good memories in you.

…and cumquats are full of memories for me. my grandmother had two cumquat trees at the door of her big old house in heidelberg, melbourne, and she made a great cumquat marmalade.

]]> By: jessie http://foodmaidens.net/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8703 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:47:59 +0000 http://foodmaidens.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8703 yes! that moment of realising preserving was about transformation really hit home for me. and it’s not about it being better or worse than the fresh cumquat, just different (and so far, super tasty).

i need to finish the project (there’s a labeling process involved too, then possible distribution) then we will definitely be having marmalade on toast! maybe for my one year phd anniversary (but who can wait that long…)

]]> By: natnnnat http://foodmaidens.net/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8702 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:39:06 +0000 http://foodmaidens.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8702 Re finding history in processes… there’s something you say sometimes about zines being about the process of zining? This is the dilemma of _archiving_ zines isnt it, because the archiving does things like put the pages into plastic, when the zine people are into zines for zines sake, zines for the present… processes for process’ sake? Look at that bowl of chopped up cumquats! You’ve taken them to bits for this jam business!

]]> By: natnnnat http://foodmaidens.net/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8701 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:31:48 +0000 http://foodmaidens.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-cumquat-project/#comment-8701 You engage in a lot of the-old-way crafts. Jam making, knitting, old-style printing, these are all processes which have been overtaken by more sophisticated technological advancement, but the forms which attract you are the older, slower forms. I wonder what that’s about, and i dont think I know the answer, but suggest some obvious possibilities: Is it because these techniques involve manual interaction with material? Is there an interest in women’s work (in the case of knitting and preserving, and making kick arse cupcakes too)? Note the irony that the hands on techniques require more endurance because they are slower. Is the attraction that the control over the product is your hands, when the bigger faster technological processes produce more generic products?

Or that you are finding your history / memories in these processes?
Also, when is the marmalade and toast party?

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