i should tell you: Tourettes

Well hello there. This is the next installment of I Should Tell You, my new weekly-ish segment where I interview musicians (criteria: I like them and they respond to my earnest emailing) about food. Now that it's in its second week it feels like it's a real thing, not just an awkwardly brief one-off idea. Imagine how insufferable I'll be by week three. If you're still all "help, what?" I explained some more about this caper last week.

  

Tourettes is a rapper whose compelling music and poetry and writing I've been a huge fan of since I discovered it all in 2009, via a website which I won't name on here since I tend to keep this thing swearword-free, out of a vague sense that I'll get in trouble with someone if I don't. Anyway: a fun mix of alluring and uncomfortable, caustic yet sweet (like a grapefruit?), you can find more of his words of all kinds at filthyandbeautiful.net. For new people, I recommend Out Of Water from his album Who Says You Can't Dance To Misery (coincidentally, featuring last week's interviewee, Anna Coddington. Doesn't that just put the "gee!" in synergy.) He also sent me some photos which is really cool. So here he is and here's some food he fixed up.

Thanks Tourettes! The interview begins...now:

Where's somewhere you've eaten that you kinda like to brag about or drop into conversation?
when i was in cambodia my friend took me out to diner with his cousin who's father is high up in the military. the restaurant was at the top story of this 80’s looking sky scraper. on the way in there was a sign at the door that said no machine guns, no drugs , no body guards. even though the restaurant was on the 30th floor you could open he windows. this made me quite nervous. because of Cambodia's lax laws on prescription medicine i couldn’t tell you what our meal was like but if the rest of the food i ate over there was anything to go by, probably not so flash.

What do you fix for yourself, or where do you go to eat, when it's just you on your own?
I wish i could say it was something exciting but usually its just sandwiches. when I’m cooking for a living the last thing i want to do is cook some more, and when im not im too poor to aford anything else. I do make good sandwiches though. the trick is two sauces. but never three.

What's one of your favourite food memories from your childhood? My dad used to make deep fried chicken wings. they were really good. although sometimes they were quite pink inside but he’d always insist this was fine. i now know this isn’t true.