{"id":111,"date":"2023-07-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/?p=111"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:59:37","slug":"muindi-fanuel-muindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/2023\/07\/06\/muindi-fanuel-muindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Muindi Fanuel Muindi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measure-w_-Care-Muindi-Fanuel-Muindi.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measure-w_-Care-Muindi-Fanuel-Muindi.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measure-w_-Care-Muindi-Fanuel-Muindi-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measure-w_-Care-Muindi-Fanuel-Muindi-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measure-w_-Care-Muindi-Fanuel-Muindi-500x281.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measure-w_-Care-Muindi-Fanuel-Muindi-800x450.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learning to prepare dishes from my grandmother, I never referenced standard measures. My grandmother would say, \u201cyou need this much water\u201d, and I gauged measures using my sense of hearing, sight, touch, and taste: listening for how intensely and for how long she held the faucet open to get the measure of water she needed, looking at how much water filled the pan, holding the pan while the water was added and feeling the weight of it, tasting the dish, finding it a tad too liquid, and wishing that my grandmother added bit less water than she did&#8230; But if I were to write a cookbook full of my grandmother\u2019s recipes that people all over the planet might use, I would need to use the standard measures that many are familiar with. I would have to write, \u201cAdd 3 \u00bd cups of water.\u201d Yet, even then, non-standard and anexact measures are necessary, phrases like \u201clower the temperature to a simmer\u201d, \u201csalt to taste\u201d, \u201csaut\u00e9 till translucent\u201d, \u201cadd the whites of three large eggs\u201d, etc. The prevalence of standard measures, like the 8 fluid ounce cup, not only in recipe books but in all fields of human activity, is never a mere historical accident. The establishment of any and every standard measure is a remarkable social feat, involving either remarkable common efforts or remarkable impositions of systems of domination. When impositions of systems of domination are involved, the prevalence of a standard measure indexes more harm than good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">&#8211; Muindi Fanuel Muindi<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to prepare dishes from my grandmother, I never referenced standard measures. My grandmother would say, \u201cyou need this much water\u201d, and I gauged measures using my sense of hearing, sight, touch, and taste: listening for how intensely and for how long she held the faucet open to get the measure of water she needed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/2023\/07\/06\/muindi-fanuel-muindi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muindi Fanuel Muindi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dsp-2023","category-panelist-dsp-2023","category-provocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}