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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC
Pregnant Lemonade aired June 30, 2004 on WCAI
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC Pregnant Lemonade aired June 30, 2004 on WCAI PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST accompanying recipes available at www.cooksnotebook.com
Broadcast History
Pregnant Lemonade aired June 30, 2004 on WCAI/WNAN
Transcript
She?d been up since 4:00 in the morning. At almost nine months pregnant she couldn?t sleep through a hot, humid night much past then. This was the one time in her life when she wished they had air-conditioning and not just fans. She went out to take a walk before it got too hot and then a quick swim ? more like a float really ? at Eastville. Moon jellyfish ? white and opaque ? drifted around and under her back, arms and legs.
During the heat of the day, when it seemed like everyone else was out enjoying the summer ? sailing, swimming and sunning themselves ? she wandered around the near-empty grocery store in her flipflops, lingering in the cool air ? relieved to be out of the sun. Humming to the piped-in tunes of WMVY she read the ingredients lists on things like poptarts, counted the jars of spaghetti sauce and paged through People magazine.
In the frozen food aisle she looked...
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Jenn Blair
Posted on July 18, 2004 at 09:28 AM | Permalink
Review of A Cook's Notebook: Pregnant Lemonade
I liked this piece because it's a good story, well written, with nice, carefully chosen details that give a good sketch of the characters and situation in the short time of the piece.
I would have liked it even more if it had been a little more leisurely in pace. The protagonist moves very slowly, and the narration describing her movements felt a little rushed. There was obviously a choice made to keep it simple with just the narrator telling the story, but I wonder if some music and maybe other sound would have created another level of emotional depth. Maybe some Musak in the store, the sound of the ocean when the protagonist goes swimming, and/or some contemplative music to create spaces in the narrative, giving the listener a little more time to "see" the wonderful images in the story.