ugly food – Orangette https://orangette.net Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:06:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 That January thing https://orangette.net/2016/01/9228/ https://orangette.net/2016/01/9228/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:52:29 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=9228 Split pea, the ugliest soup! The food whose appearance most closely approximates toxic waste water! The miraculous substance capable of making a home kitchen feel like a military chow hall! Capable of making a person who has never used the words “chow hall” in her entire life suddenly feel like Chow Hall is what she will call her vast, sweeping estate in the English countryside, when she somehow inherits a vast, sweeping estate in the English countryside! Split pea, a voyage for the mind! I have written before about split pea soup. It is apparently a January thing for me: I last wrote about it four years ago this month.  Until yesterday, in fact, I wasn’t going to write about this particular version,…

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