SoupDiary

This is the log of a soup eater, here you can find notes, thoughts, drawings, recipes, and whatever is sketchy and WIP fetched from the wiki to this soupboat page

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A nomadic soup eater

I like the image of a soup eater because it's a figure that potentially traverses many different positions across the strata of social structures and history. At first I thought of the soup-eater as someone wearing pijama and sipping a filling beverage from a warm bowl; comfy home slippers covering their feet, and cold rainy weather outside. Or someone swigging with relish an exotic-flavoured mush in a restaurant. Then I remembered my grandma's stories about her childhood and how she would eventually dilute the onion soup during and immediately after the Second World War, although maybe it's not necessary to go that back in time in order to relate to an image of the soup eater as someone who doesn't have the means to afford fancy elaborated meals. And more very cheesy examples, the bored soup eater who doesn't want to think about what to eat, just trhows random things into boiling water and blends them all, the painter soup eater plays with the colours of the veggies, and so on
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I like the idea of the soup as aggregator of realities, a constraint related to sedentary life and comfy households, but also a travel-machine in which such realities can meet each others. ...WIP...

"The move from one mode of subsistence [hunting and foraging] to the next one [sedentary agriculture] is seen as sharp and definitive [...] Each step is presumed to represent an epoch leap in mankind's well being" but the truth is that"