electo-soul of 2010’s Flesh Tone until it’s as warm and casual as the recent collaborations between Solange Knowles and Dev Hynes. “The idea is actually that it’s not so much about, like, ‘doing ribs’ because French-style cooking is sort of, if you let them tell it, they do it the right way, and whatever style you do you apply these methods to the cooking you want to do.”Īs it turned out, food would become both a point of bonding between her and producer Dave Sitek and the title of the forthcoming LP of songs the two recorded together, a collection that syncopates and strips back the Crystal Waters/Robin S.
And although her school, Le Cordon Bleu, reserved the type of soul food she specializes in for a globe-spanning “ethnic” unit, its curriculum still influenced the way she cooks the type of food she grew up eating. In part because it gave her the tools and confidence to draw her style away from that of her mother, Kelis now remembers the decision to attend cooking school as one of the best she has ever made, even hanging around after graduating to take alumni courses on topics like the art of sushi. You can’t even call it that because it’s just not that anymore. And you know, it’s 15 years later and now I do it my way and she’ll be like, ‘No. “She would tell and I’d try to master it the way she did it. “Before I went to culinary school, just being a young adult, I would call her and say, ‘Hey Mom, how do you do this?'” she recalls from the kitchen of a house in Austin’s Clarksville neighborhood, her home for the duration of South by Southwest, a festival at which she is not only playing three gigs but also preparing and serving ribs, sliders and coleslaw from the side of a food truck. The 34-year-old singer’s mom was a chef, so the singer learned to cook at an early age, and growing up, when she needed recipe advice an expert was always a phone call away.įood and 26 more must-hear albums for spring 2014
For Kelis, cooking food and concocting records have never been that different - it’s all about finding the right collaborators and putting your own stamp on the final product.
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