Taste: out today, Sunday
Because in between dealing with lunatics like that Jeffrey, writing this blog, and being a recluse who last went to a virgin-white party at the appropriate age of 19 (at Club 47/Mystique in Madliena, not Ta’ Gianpula – much, much hipper and glacially cool; a hyper-dork like Jeffrey wouldn’t have been allowed through the door, even if he had known about it, which is why I never knew him from Adam even though he’s just a year older), I somehow have to get the day-job done.
So please, go out and get it.
Now I’m busy working on another one, out 5 August. Fried, basted and barbecued Jeffrey. Jesmond simmered slowly in a tagine. Franco casseroled with onions in a slow-cooker. Charlon Gouder with white wine and oregano in a fish-kettle. Jason Micallef, stewed in his own juices. “Take one Anglu Farrugia, wash it thoroughly, then insert a whole lemon into the rectal cavity and sew it up. Drizzle on some olive oil and bake at gas mark 5 for three hours, basting regularly.”
If only.
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Can’t wait to get it. The best, most interesting mag on the rock (and even beyond).
Loony Jeffy should start a mag on the pros and cons of botox. Could call it ‘Taste Those Big Lips’.
Careful! They might think you are issuing torture threats.
Just got it for the missus. Maybe she’ll make me some crepes Suzettes.
What’s Joseph Muscat’s recipe? Maybe something smoked?
The only publication from Malta I miss. Is there a way of getting it away from the island?
[Daphne – No.]
I mail it to my relatives in Canada, after I’ve ‘devoured’ it, They love it.
Your column in today’s The Malta Independent on Sunday is excellent. As I have told you before: when you are good you are really good but when you are bad…
Anyway re your point on psychosis. In my non professional life I have only once met a Maltese person who was suffering from psychosis because this is not a common condition. The figure for psychosis that you quote for the Maltese population is artificially inflated.
This is how it is inflated: Conditions like Schizophrenia entitles one to free medicines while conditions like major depression (which is not a psychosis) do not entitle one to free medicines.
Therefore many doctors list their patients as suffering from psychotic illness just so that they can get free medicines from the state. Patients very often do not realise what the doctors are doing and that it is a terrible stigma to be labelled as psychotic when one may be only suffering from a temporary depressive episode brought about by circumstances in one’s life.
[Daphne – You don’t know very much, I’m afraid. Major depression can actually lead to psychosis. Psychosis merely means detachment from reality. Anybody with serious depression and fixations that lead to paranoia and persecution mania – and they are commoner than you think – are psychotic. If you have known only one psychotic person, then you have led a very sheltered life.]
My point: Serious psychotic illness (eg: The devil speaks to me and tells me to kill people) is not common.
[Daphne – That’s what I meant. It doesn’t have to be ‘the devil speaks to me and tells me to kill people’. That’s the kind of thing you get with schizophrenia. You can have a seriously depressed person suffering from paranoid delusions, who fixates on certain topics and thinks that everyone is after him or her. That too is psychotic, but those sorts of people are usually at home, not at Mount Carmel or noted schizophrenics.]
Psychosis can be caused by predisposing factors which are triggered by environmental factors or else just by triggers such as chronic alcohol abuse and drug use. Since I do not think that migrants are abusing alcohol especially when they are in detention, I would look at what is causing their psychosis.
I am not going to jump to any conclusions but I’ve heard that wardens in prisons give out medicines which they think will keep inmates quiet like they were giving out smarties.
I have noticed that men in their 40s-50s usually suffer psychotic depression because they were mummy’s boys (mammoni) and they remained under their maternal spell.
Unfortunately it was not included in The Malta Independent on Sunday that was delivered to Iklin stationers.
[Daphne – It is always included. Please give me the names of these stationers – I won’t upload them.]
The cover of Taste magazine whetted my appetite. The Sunday Times headline totally unwhetted it.
Of all the colourful pics in Taste my favourite one is the only black and white one. It can be found on page four. Simply schintillating.
Add Luciano Busuttil, grilled bleu.
And Leo Brincat, lightly browned (for a change) to seal in the juices.
Taste’s lovely today.
Inspired my late lunch…simply love Taste and hobz biz-zejt tasted better this afternoon followed by fish on barbecue.
Loved the salads and hobz biz-zest presented by Daphne and I also have to get a tagine, to cook those rabbit legs.