Alfred Cooks.....

I have some friends who live in a tumbledown flat in Newtown (or at least did until the landlord decided that they were not paying enough to live in his house while it fell down around their cars - but thats another story) In the backyard is a garden and some chooks. All round are other tumbledown houses. On the fair flesh of Newtonian suburbia grown a number of boils, one of these is the hospital, sprawling, technological cancer, another is an unnamable takeaway chicken bar. In this fast food edifice people are fed on fast grown chicken, chips, coleslaw etc all nice and clean and sterile.

In my friends kitchen (which is not all that sterile, the stove not all that new) vegetables are carefully prepared for a meal: green peppers,

mushrooms, fresh tomatoes (sometimes you have to cut out some greebies), crisp garlic, celery, unions and fresh herbs. No rush here, such a meal is worth waiting for, talking, laughing over. People who try to Convince others that eating is comparable with oiling a machine (albiet a ration one) seem less than human and their abodes cold and sterile.

Here is a recipe for a nonfast fresh vegetable type food that Jill first suggested to me.