Imagine a specific recipe for Erős Pista (Hungarian spicy paprika paste) that was on a blog called "Budapest Bites" that shut down in 2018.
She made a new tag on the page: "recipes as memory." It was a small act of naming, a tacking of a flag onto something transient. Later, when a student emailed to ask permission to use a photo of the pepper on the cover for a zine, Mara replied with an attachment: the transcription, the photo, and a short note asking that the zine credit the original as "E. Halvorsen, Paprika." The student replied with a scan of the zine’s xeroxed cover — a pepper in a collage of photocopied hands — and a single line: "Thank you. We are keeping it moving."
Imagine a specific recipe for Erős Pista (Hungarian spicy paprika paste) that was on a blog called "Budapest Bites" that shut down in 2018.
She made a new tag on the page: "recipes as memory." It was a small act of naming, a tacking of a flag onto something transient. Later, when a student emailed to ask permission to use a photo of the pepper on the cover for a zine, Mara replied with an attachment: the transcription, the photo, and a short note asking that the zine credit the original as "E. Halvorsen, Paprika." The student replied with a scan of the zine’s xeroxed cover — a pepper in a collage of photocopied hands — and a single line: "Thank you. We are keeping it moving."