Writer Girl
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| Industry | Fashion |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Write and Design |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I always think of writing in terms of food. Kenkey, fish and black fried pepper is the first dish that springs to mind whenever anyone asks me what I would choose for my last dish on this earth. Kenkey is a fermented corn dumpling that combines with fried red snapper and black pepper to give a truly Ghanaian definition of comfort food. It's the sort of meal that sits in the belly and tingles the taste buds long after you have washed the sticky white kenkey from your finger tips and picked out bits of fish from your teeth. I love eating it with friends; sitting on the floor in a circle around the food, or in one of those lovely Ghanaian restaurants that encourage you to eat with your fingers. I feel a wonderful guilty pleasure when I eat it on my own, because I tend to over eat, with more kenkey than I need and blow-your-head-off hot pepper, chased down with gallons of water. I then become so full that I have to lie down, and think. Either way, the memory of a good kenkey and fish meal lingers for days, weeks, sometimes years. Great writing should have the same effect. And that is what I am aiming for. |
| Interests | Painting pictures with words, finding stories in patterns |
| Favorite movies | High Society, A little known African film called 'La vie est belle' (mainly for the soundtrack), Anything with Al Pacino, Nicolas Cage or Denzel Washington. |
| Favorite books | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Thing's Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, La Machine Infernale by Emile Zola, Elise ou la vraie vie by Claire Etcherelli |