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-=== The Resilient Aristologist === +==== The Resilient Aristologist ===
  
 by [[:Pippa Buchanan]] by [[:Pippa Buchanan]]
  
-“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”  +“A good half of the art of living is resilience.” -- Alain de Botton
-― Alain de Botton +
- +
-“...The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men +
-Gang aft agley... +
- +
-(...The best laid schemes of mice and men +
-Go often awry…)”+
  
-― Robert Burns //To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough//, November, 1785+“…The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men\\ 
 +Gang aft agley…"\\ 
 +("…The best laid schemes of mice and men\\ 
 +Go often awry…")\\ 
 +-- Robert Burns//To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough//, November, 1785
  
 The concept of resilience is broad, but in essence it can be defined as //the ability to withstand, adjust to or recover from misfortune and change//. My thoughts often turn to questions of how resilient I and my loved ones will be to changes, whether that be a personal or global financial crisis or changes to the space and climate we live in. Will we be able to work? Will we be able to eat? Will we be content with our changed lives? The concept of resilience is broad, but in essence it can be defined as //the ability to withstand, adjust to or recover from misfortune and change//. My thoughts often turn to questions of how resilient I and my loved ones will be to changes, whether that be a personal or global financial crisis or changes to the space and climate we live in. Will we be able to work? Will we be able to eat? Will we be content with our changed lives?
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 Just as we can rashly group people into Food People and Not Food People, there are people who Follow Recipes and those who Do Not Follow Recipes. If you are going to cook and eat in challenging circumstances (while camping, or on a public holiday) you will find it very difficult to Follow Recipes: inevitably you may realise that you couldn't actually find mayonnaise in tubes in Australia and so neglected to pack mayonnaise at all. The use of a single camping stove would mean that no, you can't pre-heat the stock to add to your risotto and gods forbid, the lack of refrigeration will mean that you won't be able to deglaze your pan with white wine, but instead will have to resort to using red wine from a bag. Just as we can rashly group people into Food People and Not Food People, there are people who Follow Recipes and those who Do Not Follow Recipes. If you are going to cook and eat in challenging circumstances (while camping, or on a public holiday) you will find it very difficult to Follow Recipes: inevitably you may realise that you couldn't actually find mayonnaise in tubes in Australia and so neglected to pack mayonnaise at all. The use of a single camping stove would mean that no, you can't pre-heat the stock to add to your risotto and gods forbid, the lack of refrigeration will mean that you won't be able to deglaze your pan with white wine, but instead will have to resort to using red wine from a bag.
  
-A Resilient Aristologist((Aristology is the art or science of cooking and dining. It encompasses the preparation, combination, and presentation of dishes and the manner in which these dishes are integrated into a meal. (Wikipedia, 2013))) (i.e. a Food Person who Does Not Follow Recipes) will happily improvise and present a grated carrot and cabbage salad with a lemon and olive oil dressing instead of the creamy coleslaw that "normal" life could have provided. The risotto is not restaurant quality, but is instead tinged pink from the red wine, flecked green and orange by dried parsley and given flavour by dried onions, mushrooms and garlicky salami before being finished with tinned ghee and powdered parmesan.+A Resilient Aristologist((Aristology is the art or science of cooking and dining. It encompasses the preparation, combination, and presentation of dishes and the manner in which these dishes are integrated into a meal. (Wikipedia, 2013).)) (i.e. a Food Person who Does Not Follow Recipes) will happily improvise and present a grated carrot and cabbage salad with a lemon and olive oil dressing instead of the creamy coleslaw that "normal" life could have provided. The risotto is not restaurant quality, but is instead tinged pink from the red wine, flecked green and orange by dried parsley and given flavour by dried onions, mushrooms and garlicky salami before being finished with tinned ghee and powdered parmesan.
  
 In harder times a Resilient Aristologist would know how to gather roots and roast them to make ersatz coffee, and would hunt out patches of nettles and other wild greens while considering the best way to trap and prepare a street pigeon. In harder times a Resilient Aristologist would know how to gather roots and roast them to make ersatz coffee, and would hunt out patches of nettles and other wild greens while considering the best way to trap and prepare a street pigeon.
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-===REFERENCES===+===References===
  
   * Bollier, D., 2002. Reclaiming the Commons, Boston Review, [online] Available at http://bostonreview.net/BR27.3/bollier.html (Accessed 16 January 2013)   * Bollier, D., 2002. Reclaiming the Commons, Boston Review, [online] Available at http://bostonreview.net/BR27.3/bollier.html (Accessed 16 January 2013)
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