Ryoko Sekiguchi - 961 heures à Beyrouth (et 321 plats qui les accompagnent)
Ryoko Sekiguchi - 961 heures à Beyrouth (et 321 plats qui les accompagnent)
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In Ce n'est pas un hasard (P.O.L 2011), written in the aftermath of the triple disaster at Fukushima, Ryoko Sekiguchi addressed the question of the "eve of catastrophe". Arriving in Beirut in 2018, she could have had no idea that this city was in turn threatened by impending tragedies, the anti-corruption revolt in February 2020 and the terrible explosion at the Port of Beirut in August. During her month-and-a-half residency, 961 hours to be precise, she had planned to portray the city through the gestures of cooks and the cooking stories shared by Beirut residents. This writing project was partially disrupted. The book is captured in the nostalgia of a pre-disaster Beirut. It was to be a tasty cookbook, filled with the joy of sharing. The idea was strong: in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society, a foreigner can find more doors opening to her than to the locals. Everyone shares their most intimate stories with her. But then the author realizes that the book was written in a pre-drama. The city she explores becomes "the city before the explosion of August 4, 2020".
A Japanese woman living between France and Japan, Ryoko Sekiguchi is familiar with "oriental" customs. She reflects on the "two Orients" of Lebanon and Japan, and the other Orients she has known, such as Iran and Syria. The woman who, in Nagori (P.O.L 2018), brought together various themes under the angle of the passing of the seasons, takes this challenge one step further. Through the prism of cuisine, she addresses issues of transmission, myth, tradition and culinary symbols, as well as memory, disasters, the unspoken, the great Lebanese famine, the social divide and immigration. Based on the Lebanese case, she sheds light on the fate of the "untouchables" (burakumin) in Japan, a great taboo that the Japanese have not yet lifted.
The book is made up of 321 micro-chapters, each echoing in some way a recipe, a dish, a flavor.
April 2021
256 pages
ISBN : 978-2-8180-5269-3
© P.O.L
Cooking • Food • Litterature • P.o.l. • Ryoko sekiguchi
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