Some quotes about narrative ….
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2008, English translation 2009). El Juego del Angel (translated by Lucia Graves as The Angel’s Game), Madrid: Editorial Planeta / London: Phoenix.
pg.121 of the 2009 English translation:
“Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated ….”
pg.192
“They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons of theoretical speeches. This is what any of the great religious texts teach us. They’re all takes about characters who must confront life and overcome obstacles, figures setting off on a journey of spiritial enrichment through exploits and revelations. All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral frame and a particular framework of supernatural dogmas …..”
R
The Narrative Turn turns culinary!
I like the quotes from Zafon Richard has posted here. Yes, everything is a story, quite often waiting eagerly to be told, as I discover more every day while asking questions to do with my research.
One evening, just very recently, I was watching a cookery programme on TV with Jamie Oliver concocting a very tasty looking dish of chicken in piri-piri sauce. Finishing it off, he said something like this (can’t remember the exact words), “let’s put a few leaves of fresh coriander on top, like this, to let them tell their story…” 🙂
I have found this recipe online, but without the comment he made on the TV show:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1312958/Jamie-Olivers-30-minute-meals-Piri-Piri-chicken-rocket-salad-dressed-potatoes-quick-Portuguese-tarts.html
Magda