World of Kebab (Reference Version)
Since we first launched Souciant in March, I’ve used my near-weekly contributions to generate copy for my new book. On a good month, I’ll crank out four thousand words of final draft copy, or 1K a week. It’s been a good deadline-driven framework. Though I can write that much in a day, I wouldn’t bank on it being the best material. Given a week, it’s a totally different story.
Hence today’s piece, World of Kebab. Named after a Turkish fast food delivery van I used to run into in Stuttgart, the article traffics in one of my favorite themes, food’s centrality to cultural identity. As I pushed the topic in my last book, Israel vs. Utopia, food is a reasonable, if not desirable alternative to religion. Its sensuality is just about the most secular thing I can think of.
