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SNACKY DAI Aïda Muluneh, Access, Addis Ababa, Eth
iopia, from the series Water Life, 2018. Commissioned by Water Aid, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Water Aid. For 450+ episodes Sunday, Snacky Tunes co-hosts Darin and Greg Bresnitz – brothers since birth, dance music DJ partners, dim sum lovers and whiskey aficionados – explore and celebrate the cultural convergence of music and food on the Radio Heritage Network (which has a staggering array of food and drink based podcasts.) Now they are bringing their podcast to book as they collect stories from 75 of the world’s most acclaimed chefs chronicling how music has been a constant force throughout their lives, helping to define themselves individually, opening gateways to understanding their cultures and igniting the creativity behind their work. And it features our pals from Hang Dai on Camden Street who craft tastes and beats to lip-smacking and ear-worming perfection. Snacky Tunes: Music Is the Main Ingredient, Chefs and Their Music is published by Phaidon on September 3. heritageradionetwork.org/our-shows AFRICAN COSMOLOGIES BEES PLEASE! Since its inception in 1983, Houston’s FotoFest has presented and worked with artists, photographers, and thinkers from Japan, Latin America, Korea, China, Russia, and the Arab Region. This year, to mark the Biennial’s 2020, it focused on 33 artists of African origins from around the globe whose works challenge traditional notions of Blackness and transnational histories in relation to concepts of liberty, rights, and representation. Unfortunately, the actual real life exhibition fell foul of Covid-19 but African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other is available to purchase. It also features our favourite African photographer at the moment, Aïda Muluneh, an Ethiopian photographer and artist, noted for her highly colourful, stylized and arresting compositions. Her oeuvre “deals in high-stakes disparities: Africa as aspiration and Africa as abyss,” according to The Atlantic. €50, Schilt Publishing, schiltpublishing.com A National Disgrace… our last music outing before lockdown was the Choice Music Awards where Lankum bagged ‘Album of the Year’ for their widely acclaimed The Livelong Day. Alas, they were on tour in the States and had to dial in their thanks. However, we can all get to see them livestream from the stage of The Abbey Theatre on August 15. €12. Google: “Is cling film bad for the environment?” Answer: “Cling film is difficult to recycle, information about where specific types of cling film can be recycled is hard to find, meaning the majority of it still ends up in landfill where it takes hundreds of years to degrade and risks leaching chemicals into groundwater.” Google: millbee.com Discover: Beeswax Food Wraps Variety 3 Pack, “a natural and alternative to Cling film” which is washable and reusable, looks gorgeous and lasts up to one year. All the wraps are handmade in Tullamore, County Offaly, by founder and owner Jennifer Doyle. €20, millbee.com 7