Sharing a couple of links

A couple of great articles in this morning's press.

In The Independent, Johann Hari on 'sympathetic' portrayals of sexual abusers in fiction. He's talking mostly about child abuse and Alan Bennett's plays, but his point applies more generally, too...and is a damn good point that can't be made often enough. (Content may be triggering - and the comments are okay right now but probably won't stay that way.)

And on a similar note, in The Guardian, Patrick Stewart writes about living with domestic abuse. Yes, that Patrick Stewart. He's done a lot of work in this area, so some may be familiar with his story, but the article is painfully honest and damned brave. (Again, content may be triggering for some.)

Pork with pineapple and ginger

Tonight's surprisingly successful cooking experiment came courtesy of the Guardian food blog. There was an article there today ranting about over-use of cinnamon. Apparently Americans put it in everything and the author has a problem with that :-) Anyhow, said article linked to a couple of recipes to make the point, and one of them looked really interesting. Except it called for jalepenos which I hate and included something else which I didn't even know what it was. And the measurements were all whacky; I know American measurements don't match what we use in the UK but even taking that into account I couldn't make complete sense of it. So I printed the recipe off and headed to the supermarket, sort of adapting it on the fly.

( Here's what I ended up with... )