{"id":41114,"date":"2023-06-12T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41114"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:47:16","slug":"about-this-seasonality-thing-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/06\/12\/about-this-seasonality-thing-then\/","title":{"rendered":"About This “Seasonality” Thing, Then…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who are more frequent visitors here may have gleaned that I’m a bit of a foodie. As such, “seasonality” is something I hear discussed a lot on foodie shows, with commensurate mentions in cookbooks and food ‘zines.<\/p>\n

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Midsummer fare<\/p><\/div>\n

By “seasonality”, I mean the concept of eating food according to the season and acquiring it as close to the source as possible, for those that can’t grow or raise it themselves.<\/p>\n

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It’s quince time now…<\/p><\/div>\n

Seasonality also plays a starring role in books such as Joanne Harris’s Chocolat<\/em> and Frances Mays Under the Tuscan Sun<\/em>, or — going back further — A Year in Provence<\/em> by Peter Mayle.<\/p>\n

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I also mention it From time to time, I also mention its influence upon The Wall of Night<\/a> series, for example:<\/p>\n

Celebrating the Seasons in “The Gathering of the Lost”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Seasonality is one of my things, but I must admit that the Covid lockdown here gave it a boost, with the fruit that friends and family usually helped consume soon becoming an embarassment of riches.<\/p>\n

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Quinces for poaching…<\/p><\/div>\n

And the more you do, in that respect, the more tends to arrive on your doorstep and this year feijoas (known as pineapple guava, I think, outside of NZ)) figs,walnuts, but most significantly, quince have all duly arrived.<\/p>\n

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Quince paste in the making…<\/p><\/div>\n

All of which is quite wonderful in some ways. However, dealing with the bounty is also a significant amount of work, even in the very modest quantities I’m dealing with — which has got me thinking that I can see why the human race embraced the industrialization of food production and preservation. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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…and made.<\/p><\/div>\n

Because, dear readers, experience is teaching me that in order to fully embrace seasonality in all it’s glory, one either needs A Great Deal Of Time, or a small army of helpers fully deployed.<\/p>\n

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Preserves — not quite “galore” \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

Certainly, if I were to get any further into it, I would either need to switch to writing books about food (and even then I might still need that small army in order to have any writing time!) or give up writing altogether: O-o.<\/p>\n

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Quince tart<\/p><\/div>\n

As I have no intention of doing that, seasonality will always have to stay within bounds — although as the photos may indicate, there are compensations for some degree of seasonality, here’n’there… \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Chocolate, feijoa, and walnut cake<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who are more frequent visitors here may have gleaned that I’m a bit of a foodie. As such, “seasonality” is something I hear discussed a lot on foodie shows, with commensurate mentions in cookbooks and food ‘zines. By “seasonality”, I mean the concept of eating food according to the season and acquiring it as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41114"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41161,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions\/41161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}