tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14624832929249614192024-03-18T22:08:12.084-07:00GIRL WITH A MULTI-TRACK MINDINSIGHTS, PROJECTS & PERSPECTIVESSarah Douglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701153338298421536noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462483292924961419.post-75768176749479093172010-03-28T15:24:00.000-07:002010-03-28T15:34:58.231-07:00Broken Biscuits - Pop-up restaurant where art and food meet<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIbDe4LSex7NjomUkCWrua0aoW_Mc_ZO4yJ0YjQUG_c8UyKnSWCnoCGiWl4yddetHHEUpuNDMkJzgNGVnCetPGychkrwzC76rvw-f7XyquCEMOEEhxbjcuhmdGDsufXM6HviMavyzJVDU/s1600/Deer3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIbDe4LSex7NjomUkCWrua0aoW_Mc_ZO4yJ0YjQUG_c8UyKnSWCnoCGiWl4yddetHHEUpuNDMkJzgNGVnCetPGychkrwzC76rvw-f7XyquCEMOEEhxbjcuhmdGDsufXM6HviMavyzJVDU/s320/Deer3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453816023823667282" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 23.5px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Century Gothic; min-height: 15.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 36.0px Century Gothic; color:#221e1f;"><span style="font: 12.0px Century Gothic; color:#000000;"> </span>Broken Biscuits? </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">A culinary adventure in memory of London’s most notorious slum.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">Take your tastebuds on a gastrogeographical journey to explore one of the most fascinating corners of Shoreditch. Part art, part archaeology, part gastronomic feast, on the ruins of the most infamous of all of London’s slums.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">In the1880’s, the Old Nichol housed a population of 5700 in its rotting streets; its death rate was over twice the London average. It became a byword for squalor, deprivation and crime, with young and old securing their day-to-day survival by fair means or foul. A site of controversy and the focus for the social debates and revolutionary foment of the late 19th Century, it was a test case for Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx’s theories of class struggle, was picked over by researchers, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">statisticians, social crusaders and commentators of every stripe, and brought vividly to life in fictional form by Arthur Morrison’s ‘A Child of the Jago’.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">The Old Nichol Rookery was demolished in the late 1800’s. In its place now stands The Boundary Estate, the world’s first social housing scheme. Broken Biscuits? evokes the ghosts of the children who populated these dark streets, living cheek by jowl with the donkeys, cows, geese and rabbits kept for sustenance or trade. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">The past will be brought to life by food. Your map is a menu. Six courses guide you through time and place in the Old Nichol.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: 14.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Collect your map and bag of broken savoury biscuits </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>from the Owl and Pussycat on Redchurch Street.</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #626365"><i>Shops discounted much of their bakery produce for hungry locals, and large bags of broken biscuits could be bought for a halfpenny.</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Pick your apple from the fields of Albion. </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>In the windows of Leila’s, a fantastical display of cakes. </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Dare you ask for one?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #5e5f61"><i>“Regardless of the shopkeepers’ real line of business, many shops had sweet foodstuffs – confectionary, small open tarts, sugar butties, a suet and plum pudding called Baby’s Head – on display in the windows to tempt children in... in some instances [with] the sinister purpose of luring [them] in with a view to encouraging them to pilfer for the shopkeeper, who would fence the stolen goods.” (The Blackest Streets, Sarah Wise)</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Zubrówka Vodka at Arnold Circus, </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>served with blinis, smoked salmon and sour cream.</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #646668"><i>The mound at Arnold Circus was built on the demolition rubble of the Old Nichol. Let’s raise a glass to the slum that inspired the October Revolution!</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">We reach a secret doorway at Rochelle Canteen and enter. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">A feast awaits us.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Hare pâté and pigeon terrine studded with juniper berries </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>served with St. John’s bread, green parsley liquor </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>and a shot of Jensen’s Bermondsey Gin. </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #5e5f61"><i>Pigeons, songbirds, white mice, parrots and rabbits were kept in the cellars and sold in the bird and animal market at Club Row.</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Shot of watercress soup.</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #606164"><i>The area was originally built on watercress fields.</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Venison stew marinated for 7 days, </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>accompanied by buttered Savoy cabbage, carrots and potatoes.</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #606164"><i>Every 7 days the Duke of Bedford would send two deer to the Old Nichol </i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #606164"><i>mission to be made into venison stew for free children’s dinners.</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>Spotted Dick ice cream </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>with Oloroso soaked sultanas, </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f"><b>served with a glass of Oloroso sherry.</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 12.1px; font: 11.5px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">**************</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 10.1px; font: 10.0px Century Gothic; color: #221e1f">The menu is paired with spirits and wines matched by Stefan Batfield at The City Beverage Company in Old Street. Meat supplied by Theobald’s.</p><p></p>Sarah Douglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701153338298421536noreply@blogger.com0