Stärkelse

”How to get things really flat av Andrew Martin, 2008, s. 57-58. Under the kitchen sink, in among my wife’s thicket of cleaning lotions, I discovered ’spray starch’. It contained, according to the bottle, ‘natural starch’, which didn’t get me any further. I asked my wife, ‘What is starch?’      ’I don’t know. It might be flour and water.’      I asked her what she used it for, and she said she put it on the double damask napkins (whatever they are).      All i knew about starch was that it appeared in food and glue, and I didn’t want to put anything like …”

Taggar: handla böcker och köp böcker. Läs bokrecensioner om kultur och litteratur. How to get things really flat av Andrew Martin, 2008, s. 57-58. Under the kitchen sink, in among my wife’s thicket of cleaning lotions, I discovered ’spray starch’. It contained, according to the bottle, ‘natural starch’, which didn’t get me any further. I asked my wife, ‘What is starch?’      ’I don’t know. It might be flour and water.’      I asked her what she used it for, and she said she put it on the double damask napkins (whatever they are).      All i knew about starch was that it appeared in food and glue, and I didn’t want to put anything like food or glue onto my shirts. Later that day, in the London Library, I consulted that Victorian domestic bible, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management , which was first published in 1869. The entry on ‘How to Make Starch’ began: ‘Put the starch in a tolerably large basin…’      And so the mystery was perpetuated. Starch, it seemed, just is. Bara engagemanget imponerar.

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