http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/04/pigeonhole-gatherings-vegopoltuck/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/04/pigeonhole-gatherings-vegopoltuck/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:11:27 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5342 There was a time not long ago (pre-Corridor Kitchen) when I wondered if I had lost the ability to come up with ideas. Seems crazyhorse now, but not all that much was going on and it seemed like not all that much ever would be. It’s obvious to me now that ideas don’t come from nowhere; creativity isn’t bred in a vacuum. Ideas spawn ideas spawn ideas, until one day you look at your calendar and there is literally not a spare space left. And ideas often involve more than just you and your brain; they involve other people. When I met up with Katie at The Rag Land what seems like aaaaages ago (but really it was only January), it was a lot like when Elise told me her idea for a cookbook and The Potluck Club was born. It was a meeting of the minds in the truest sense, both of us at a loose end, talking about what we could do, what we could make, together. Because that’s all creativity really is - doing and making things. We talked about so many things over those few weeks, but we kept coming back to the idea of gathering together, and of people (not brands or buildings or money or even food) being the essence of a good party. And so Pigeonhole Gatherings was born, Swah designed us the perfect logo, and the rest is history.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/04/pigeonhole-gatherings-vegopoltuck/feed/ 5 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/on-community/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/on-community/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:00:41 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3427 In a time when it’s commonly assumed we’re all living nutso, hectic, increasingly isolated lives, with the breakdown of family values, declining influence of religion, lack of moral fibre and increasing technologification (not a word) of daily life, I find this quite heartening. So I thought I’d take a break from writing about food and coffee today and turn instead to the food blogging community.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/on-community/feed/ 36