Tender Moments: Broccoli with Lemon & Almonds
🎓 Post-PhD • 📘 History • 💫 Spontaneous This is yet another recipe borne out of a last-minute attempt to be sociable. That is to say, I had invited a friend over to safeguard what little people skills I had left, without really thinking through what that would enlist. There was never a reality in which I wasn’t going to serve food in some sense of the word. Firstly, I’m a feeder. I really am. And secondly, food makes up for poor conversational skills or a stark lack of topical contributions. As many fellow academics, or ex-academics, may know too well, living for your research renders you dumb to what’s actually happening in the real world or what normal people actually do. Ok, so this particular event took place after my PhD was finished (a few years after, actually) but unfortunately, the curse of the PhD still lived on, namely its effects on my being able to talk to someone like a regular human being. So, where was I? Oh yes, I had invited a friend over as part of my c...
