Andrew Bruce

  • Beef Stroganoff

    Sometimes a dish becomes a family favourite because I happened to stumble on the ingredients while looking for inspiration and an old classic is brought to mind. This is what happened with Beef Stroganoff. I used to go to a morning yoga class near an M&S Food Hall. If I hadn’t already bought stuff for

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  • Sommel-AI: Char Siu Pork with Riesling

    Tonight I’m trying out Waitrose British Free Range Char Siu Pork Medallions. I’ll serve them with homemade ‘Korean carrots’ – basically a quick sweet and spicy pickle of Jullien carrots -, smacked cucumbers – Lao Gan Ma, salt, sesame oil-, Vadasz Kim Chi, broad rice noodles. I asked Chat GPT for a Waitrose wine pairing

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  • Joseph Beuys in Practice and Thought

    Joseph Beuys has been a recurring presence in my intellectual life for nearly two decades. Not always in the foreground, and not always comfortably. I first encountered Beuys almost by accident while on a working holiday in London in 2002. Tate Modern was hosting a major retrospective of his work and, not knowing anything about

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  • Computational Truth and the Outsourcing of Hermeneutics

    A friend recently showed me an AI-generated video that I have not been able to stop thinking about. It presents itself as an analysis of the Qur’an’s miraculous nature, narrated in a remarkably convincing imitation of David Attenborough. The choice of voice is itself telling: to Western ears, Attenborough signifies calm authority, empirical seriousness, the

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  • The First Reply from an Other Andrew

    After nearly two decades of receiving traces of other Andrew Bruces online, this was the first time one of them actually replied into a thread I could see. A BBC Radio 4 producer had contacted two Andrew Bruces about an interview request. The other Andrew replied all, and for the first time I saw “Andrew

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  • Notes on Visual Participation

    One of the more interesting developments in the Dr Amblyo trainer over the last few sessions has not been a dramatic leap in “vision”, but a growing sense that the system is beginning to recruit my weaker eye more actively into the task itself. The recent left-eye-only cueing changes feel subtle while playing, but noticeably

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  • Spaghetti Showdown

    This post is inspired by our summer holidays in Montenegro. In Sv. Stepan we go to a little ‘caffe’ each year – we love their family kitchen vibe, and Masha and I always have the local seafood platter for two. Like many tourist spots, they also have a variety of Mediterranean favourites, i.e. pizzas, salads,

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  • Fatiha Practice – 15 May

    Continuing with the Lo Fi ‘listen and repeat’. Again, not distracting myself by referring to a written version while reciting. I think it improves my pronunciation, but the recording ends up choppy becasue I have the memory of a gnat and I can only hold a few syllables in my mind long enough to repeat

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