#c. pam zhang

[dk-thrive]

I can see now that I was hungry for love... For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in.

— C. Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey (Riverhead Books, September 26, 2023)

#c. pam zhang #love #moment #gratitude #belief #purpose #god

[alinaandalion]

Her body is immortal, or rather it's died so many deaths in so many men's stories that she fears no longer.  She is a ghost, inhabiting this body.  She wonders if she can ever die.

How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

#quotes #how much of these hills is gold #c. pam zhang

[hotelsongs]

Persephone was no fool, I realized upon rereading the myth. Aida asleep beside me, her breath sour and sweet. Imagine Persephone for the first time in the absolute intoxication of dark, her senses stretching languid, the cave as moist as lover’s breath. The feast, the chair, the plate, the fruit: red. Imagine a story whose moral is mute desire.

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

#tumblr bookshelf #c pam zhang #land of milk and honey #hades x persephone #mercenary tagging for the girlies #i have placed this pomegranate on a normal surface that is NOT a mousetrap

[withheartsaligned]

#oc_tober | introduction

a review from the first umbral moon edition in the seventh astral era of the eorzea chronicle: 'a land of gold and spice' by hikari gakunin is a stunning follow-up to her debut novel, 'void's notes'. gakunin is a breathtakingly fine writer, with an assurance and expertise to her craft that make it hard to believe she has only written two novels. in 'a land of gold and spice', she tells the tale of a chef from ala mhigo working under the employment of a member of the syndicate, weaving a scathing criticism of the inequality of survival between sensual depictions of carnal pleasures and luxurious meals. her third and highly anticipated book 'neath brightest sun' is expected to be published later this year, though there are whispers of a potential delay, following gakunin's enrollment into the eorzean adventurer's guild.

#gpose #oc_tober 2023 #oc: hikari gakunin #hi i'm doing a little thing to try to flesh out hikari more! #wrote a faux book review by staring at a lot of actual book reviews #a land of gold and spice is inspired c pam zhang's 'land of milk and honey' #which i haven't gotten to read yet but!!! i do have on hold at my local library!!!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#how much of these hills is gold #c pam zhang #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[bookcub]

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[eelhound]

"I spotted a box behind the door. Impress me, this note said. Inside were flour, vanilla, eggs.

I'd expected a test, of course: a textbook omelet, or a flawless consommé to prove the French training the job demanded. Pastry, no. Giddiness abandoned me as I unpacked baking soda, sugar, milk. Even the voluptuousness of the butter couldn't distract from thoughts of my spotty experience in pâtisserie, and the precarity of my visa, and what would happen were I turned away — and then I was no longer thinking because at the bottom of the box I touched something as warm as skin, as yielding as a woman's inner thigh: strawberries.

Amen, I heard myself say, wet-mouthed. I was surprised my breath didn't smudge the air. Red: that color of desire. I began again and said the whole prayer, Our Father through daily bread. Not my words. They belonged to a pastry chef l’d loved, a lapsed Catholic who rediscovered his faith each morning as he fingered the day's shipment of fruit, and forgot it anew each afternoon as we fucked among the butter and jam. He was the first to take seriously my appetites, my ambitions. He never stored a strawberry cold. Close to the stem, he said, closest to the earth, their perfume is complex, not sugar: closer to flesh, the flesh of a loved one, not sanitized, not anodyne, but full of many waters. Strawberries and spring, strawberries and musk, strawberries and sex flooded back as I crushed my tongue to sugar. I'd come to that country hardly daring for bitter green and here, now, this rupturing sweetness. I couldn't remember what hour it was, how many time zones I'd crossed, when I'd last eaten. For years I'd fed, survived, swallowed my portions of gray — but had I hungered for pleasure?"

- C Pam Zhang, from Land of Milk and Honey, 2023.

#c pam zhang #quote #quotations #cooking #baking #strawberries #quality writing

[haveyoureadthispoll]

A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.

#book: land of milk and honey #author: c pam zhang #genre: dystopian #genre: sci fi #genre: literary #year: 2020s

[chanelslibrary]

🌙𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🌙

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

A smog has spread throughout the world depriving the planet of crops and slowly destroying wildlife. A young chef manages to escape the hellscape by getting a job on a luscious Italian mountaintop working for the global elite. Although food is abundant and decadent, and the air is fresh and clean, working for her mysterious employer and his high maintenance daughter comes with its own set of problems.

This book was fantastic! I loved the dystopian background, which felt so real like it could happen today (pollution creating a smog that wipes out plants and eventually animals). And it makes you think how it will affect careers such as chefs, farmers, scientists, meteorologists, etc. Zhang illustrates the chef’s thoughts and these characters so well with excellent prose, metaphors, and details! The research to get the ingredients and names for all of the recipes is so well done and meticulous to show the stark contrast between the wonderful life on the mountain and pollution in the rest of the world. Another great theme Zhang subtly weaved was the subjugation and interchangeably of Asian women. How they are seen as objects and not a whole person. I definitely recommend this book, especially the audiobook!!

Read if you love:

🏔️ Dystopian

👩🏻‍🍳 Culinary commentary

🌈 LGBTQ rep

✊🏼 AAPI rep

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[poetsandwriters]

Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of   All This Could Be Different (Viking, 2022), in “Ten Questions” 

#Sarah Thankam Matthews #C Pam Zhang #All This Could Be Different #Ten Questions #Writer's Block #Writer's Life #Quote #Inspiration #Fiction #Viking #2022

[lalalenii]

Warum haben leute schon Exemplare vom Blutroten Kondor aaah

#okay aber das heute zu kaufen wurde auch nicht in mein konzept passen ich muss heute noch c pam zhang fertig lesen #und morgen das dorf der teufel

[dk-thrive]

However straight the path may seem, however fixed the destination, there are ways and ways and ways.

— C. Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey (Riverhead Books, September 26, 2023)

#C. Pam Zhang #path #direction #purpose #meaning #change #choices

[spindleprick]

That husky voice, unexpected (...) A knife dragged through honey.

C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

#c pam zhang #how much of these hills is gold #words #vera: my pistol mouth #artemisia: my razor's edge #vectress #ilia: my snow queen #zinaida: my final bow

[hotelsongs]

The tongue is not the brain, that fizzing, keening, forever dissatisfied thing. The tongue speaks the transporting language of pleasure.

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

#tumblr bookshelf #land of milk and honey #c pam zhang

[jennamacaroni]

Certain, now, of the truth she suspected.  New places there may be, new languages–but there are no new stories.  No lands left wild where men haven't touched, and touched.

C Pam Zhang, “How Much of These Hills Is Gold”

#c pam zhang #quotes #what i’m reading #how much of these hills is gold

[reverie-quotes]

There is, if you dig through the muck, a steel-toothed envy at the bottom of her.

— C. Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills is Gold

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