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Cottagecore
Cottagecore is an aesthetic idealising rural life. Cottagecore fiction tends to be gentle stories in a rural setting, at a slow pace which includes descriptions of nature, and exude feelings of comfort with perhaps some mild adventure and a some fantasy. Whether an explicit part of the book or lurking in the background, there is always a love of nature.
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Margaret and Jane didn't really get non-European food, even at a time when cooking from former and contemporary colonies-- India, Hong Kong at the time, Jamaica, Trinidad-- was working deeper into the canon. And they could be out of touch-- Margaret's bon viveur lifestyle, Jane's cottagecore cave house in rural France. Like a lot of food writers, Jane was interested in a fantasy kind of peasantry, but not the actual realities of shopping in a Tesco now.
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― All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
― All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
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When we reached The Point, we would first feel the slimy, rough rock below our bellies, as if being lifted on the back of a whale. We would pull ourselves along the rock’s massive underwater surface, careful to not graze our hands or knees, then climb up above the water, standing tall beside the tower of rocks. We spent the rest of our time sliding down its slippery backside, over and over again—our own natural playground.
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― Poppy and Pa
― Poppy and Pa
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