sorry that this is late, my fault (Kate). The last post from Sophie Paul’s week on the gazette is here! Thanks so much Sophie for sharing your food diary with us, it’s been great to see how your eating, and writing on it, changed as you moved between different spaces, contexts and personal relationships over the week. Thanks again!
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Kate + Sinae
I wake up early and scrabble to get dressed and deflate my friend’s squooshy air mattress. Get on a train to Glasgow, armed with a flat white and blackberry and pistachio croissant. I don’t know what I’m expecting from this croissant, and readers, I never found out (it is still in my bag).
Lunch Number One: Baguette brie and a kind of fig chutney that Kate Morgan of Fortified, these humble pages, has arranged lovingly for us. I’m hungry at this point having spent the morning preparing for our exhibition at Lunchtime Gallery, so the bread and cheese is very welcomed, and delicious, as I prize oozy brie from the plate and post it into my mouth.
Lunch Number Two: After a stop at Burning House Books we eat tomato red pepper and basil soup at Patricia’s Coffee Bar in Southside Glasgow. Sourdough bread is slathered with butter and the soup is hot, herby, salty. My friend eats her soup with tater tots, chilli jam and brown butter hollandaise. These tater tots were not like anything I have seen before, crispy balls you put in your mouth with a crack to get to the soft potato inside. Like the best parts of crisps and chips. Picking from her plate, I find I can’t eat more than one without feeling overwhelmed, and I have to stop.
Post Lunch: Lunchtime Gallery opening and later to Sticky Fingers’ Spring Party where Donna the First hosts a series of readings from glaswegian and scottish writers, joined by Rosie’s Disobedient Press and Aimee from Burning House Books. I drink a Tennent’s Lager! The party is joyous and funny and loud and I feel very happy - especially as I table the publication stand and wait for Donna to bring me a falafel wrap and chips.
Sophie Paul (she/her, b. 1998) is a designer and writer based across London and Oxfordshire. Her work intersects critical theory, trashiness, and eroticisms.
Alongside Kaiya Waerea, she is one half of Sticky Fingers Publishing, an intra-dependent feminist publisher based in London.