Un arsenal dans la cuisine

«Médicamentée et motivée.» Collage : Anne Taintor (1)

«Elle ramassa une conserve et l’inséra dans l’ouvre-boîte électrique. Elle pressa sur le levier et regarda la boîte tourner tandis que les lames rotatives découpaient proprement le couvercle. Je l’observais les bras croisés en me disant que les cuisines étaient dangereuses. Quel arsenal – couteaux, feu, corde, brochettes, hachoir à viande, pilons et rouleau à pâtisserie. La femme moyenne doit passer une bonne partie de son temps à contempler avec bonheur les outils de son métier : appareils pour broyer, pulvériser, moudre et réduire en purée; ustensiles pour percer, trancher, disséquer et désosser; sans mentionner les produits de nettoyage qui, une fois ingérés, sont capables d'éradiquer la vie humaine en même temps que les germes.»
~ Kinsey Millhone, in M is for Malice, par Sue Grafton (2)


«Si les regards pouvaient tuer, les femmes n’auraient pas besoin de poêles à frire.» Collage : Anne Taintor.

Deux femmes douées et gratifiées d’un formidable sens de l’humour : 



(1) Anne Taintor graduated from Harvard in 1977 with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies. After college, she focused on collage, and her work always incorporated a subtle humor and playfulness. For years, Anne’s art was more of a sideline than a full-time occupation. But in 1985, she was a single mother searching for a way to spend more time at home with her daughter than her job in cartography permitted, and she began to develop a line of collaged pins and magnets. The new collages combined vintage images with Anne’s own interpretation of what these men and women might really be thinking. They were instantly a hit with Anne’s customers, though it took a little longer for her to be brave enough to “quit her day job”. In 1999, with her daughter away at college, Anne and her husband moved to a tiny town (population 80!) in Northcentral New Mexico. She now lives and works in an eclectic antique house in Portland and continues to cherish making all you smart women and men smile. http://www.annetaintor.com/



(2) Sue Grafton is published in 28 countries and 26 languages – including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. She's an international bestseller with a readership in the millions. She's a writer who believes in the form that she has chosen to mine: "The mystery novel offers a world in which justice is served. Maybe not in a court of law," she has said, "but people do get their just desserts." And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Robert Parker and the John D. MacDonald – the best of her breed – she has earned new respect for that form. Her readers appreciate her buoyant style, her eye for detail, her deft hand with character, her acute social observances, and her abundant storytelling talents. She's been married for more than twenty years. She has three kids and four grandkids. She loves cats, gardens, and good cuisine – not quite the nature-hating, fast-food loving Millhone. So: readers and reviewers beware. Never assume the author is the character in the book. Sue, who has a home in Montecito, California ("Santa Theresa") and another in Louisville, the city in which she was born and raised, is only in her imagination Kinsey Millhone – but what a splendid imagination it is. http://www.suegrafton.com/