Food From Across the Pond

Food From Across the Pond

The Official Transcript of Aedon Zier

Aedon: Hello, I am joined here today with a close friend of mine Cirno Avery. Ms. Avery is Russian Native whose spent most of her life in the UK, spending her time as of right now in Essex. She’s taken multiple trips to American and seen many differences between the cultures. She is also experienced in things such as philosophy, electronic art, and most importantly cooking. How are you doing today Avery?

Avery: I’m doing fine...I’m just a little anxious and that was one long intro you gave me!

Aedon: That’s good to hear. Now I know you know a lot about cooking, being one who has tasted it and I must say it is very good. Who taught you to cook?

Avery: My Mother and my Grandad. Baking with mother was big part of my childhood and my Grandad was a navy chef after he got shot. So the two lead onto each other as I grew up.

Aedon: How often do you cook?

Avery: I make dinner around 3 times a week, we keep a rotation on our family. Non dinner baking or anything more preplanned is saved for the holidays. Breaded food in the oven ‘ardly counts as cooking.

Aedon: Why do you enjoy cooking?

Avery: The product! The pride! Cooking is an art form, so it has the same benefits and sitting down drawing a picture. People forget that, despite all the tv shows that make cooking look like a doddle. Thanks Nigela.

Aedon: Do you enjoy cooking alone or being a lone chief?

Avery: Alone. Father might be a backseat driver in the car, mother is a back seat Ramsey in the kitchen.

Aedon: Does food and family have a good relationship?

Avery: In ours? [laughs] Father saw the meals I’d make when they’d visit me in uni as a rite of passage as an adult. Food and family is just pressure. We all have distinctly different tastes. Orderin’ chinese is like settling a playground fight.

Aedon: What are some of your food influences? Or do you just like to cook what you see?

Avery: I don’t realllllllly follow recipes. I’ll look at the picture, skim the text and get a gist then go for it.  Two friends in my life have been better. I had a Singaporean-Chinese friend who I absolutely fell in love with their colours using beans. Secondly for the meat side, my Portuguese Rooman, man I can smell her spices on that chicken when I close my eyes.

Aedon: What is your favorite thing to cook?

Avery: Pancakes! But for something a little more elegant. Layered Napleon cake, kinda like a London cheese cake but doesn’t explode.

Aedon: What are some homeland dishes you enjoy making?

Blin! American pancakes are too buttery and thick. French crepes are too crispy and dry.

Aedon: If you could only cook one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

Avery: Lasagna. I’ve eaten a hella lot of them.

Aedon: A bold question to ask but has food shaped your life and maybe even you as person?

Avery: Suffering from Trymulathelaria (Trimethylaminuria) sure is something. Those red meats sure aren’t funsies.

Aedon: What’s something you love and/or hate about American food?

Avery: American food is so damn sugary. I know that sounds like a joke but I can pick up the same branded thing in my country and there and it’ll be way sweater. Meats though? Man you Americans cook meats so well it’s beautiful. Gotta round up some American dads to teahc me to grill.

Aedon: Do you enjoy American food more than English food?

Avery: I know it’s like...a joke to say british food is bland. But untill an American dish has a ring of Black Pudding, I’m gonna say British. Also Haggis. I love haggis.

Aedon: Do you believe you can make food better than some American cooks?

Avery: Americans can cook? Do walmart tatters count as cooking?

Aedon: Well thank you for joining me today and sharing your knowledge from across the pond.

Avery: Thank you, I fancy some biscuits now, hah.