#peek frean's

[actaecon]

Mill Street London Se1. Peek Freans Biscuits.

[emaadsidiki]

Discover The Magic, Uncover The Mistry.

[bourbontrend]

Uncover the delightful history of Bourbon biscuits and how they went from Creola to a royal name! Dive into their fascinating past and unique baking process. Read more about the Bourbon biscuits history and share this sweet story with friends

[vkmillustrations]

'The dunk test', A William Heath Robinson inspired illustration, set in the Peek Frean biscuit factory, a group of biscuit factory workers testing biscuits for dunking.

[paulpingminho]

[erosire]

tee hee

my silly billy,, he is on his way!!

[hybbart]

What if I gave tiny lil etho a cookie?

You can't just take a man's peek freans, man

[greatcometcas]

eating a peek frean. effervescent.

[ectoviolet]

thinking about a peek freans fruit creme biscuit

[hotofftheprocess]

The Process Genre: Notes

Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor by Salome Aguilera Skvirsky

- Process, and the viewing of process, is of extreme interest to viewers. Think food TikTokers, think the Sandwich Glass Museum, think Blacksmiths at the Ren Faire. This is the process genre. (pg 2)

- Sequence of events with identifiable beginning, middle and end are important to this genre. - Heist films are part of process genre?????? WILD. - Side note: It seems I actually love process. Nearly half the things they’ve listed here are things I love unironically. Even airplane safety instructions. Feeling quite seen here. - Is the reason for the dearth of study on process because of a lack of prioritization of labor? I feel like the US culturally values result but not labor and even less artisanal labor than industrial labor. - Interestingly to the point on page 4, the resurgence in craft interests, especially via places like TikTok, has actually saved several crafts from extinction. - Cinema as this sort of natural presenter of process is so interesting. Especially with how I understand early film as essentially a series of photos rapidly strung together. Curious about portential overlap of process/cubist ideas (answer: duration is an issue here)? Many early films documented process. - “Process Film” here refers to “any filmic instance of the transmedial process genre.” (pg 6)

Six Sketches of Process: A VISIT TO PEEK FREAN AND CO.’S BISCUIT WORKS (CRICKS AND SHARP, UK 1906) - Corporate-sponsored biscuit (cookies, lads) production in South London. - Documents this process of mass-production.

NANOOK OF THE NORTH (ROBERT FLAHERTY, US, 1922) - The main character, Nanook, creates an ice window, and we don’t just see the making of the hole and it’s placement. We see the shoring up, the finishing. We even see the finished product. Full process. RIFIFI (JULES DASSIN, FRANCE, 1955) - 30 minute sequence of thieves burgling a jewelry store. - We are shown every step of the elaborate heist. Thus, process. - Shorter shots, part of an action stands in for the whole action PICKPOCKET (ROBERT BRESSON, FRANCE, 1959) - Michel learns the craft of pickpocketing from a master pickpocket, Kassagi, as played by a real pickpocket who consults on the film. - Close ups are on the process of Kassagi using Michel as a practice mark. - “pas de deux of hand and object” is the focus of the sequence. (Hand and Billfold) JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE. 1080 BRUXELLES (CHNTAL AKERMAN, FRANCE/BELGIUM, 1975) - The bathing sequence in a film about the day-to-day routine of a housewife-prostitute working out of her apartment. - The sequence uses each shot to focus on a different activity: bathing, dress, cleaning the tub. - The bathing sequence is extremely thorough. EL VELADOR (NATALIA ALMADA, MEXICO, 2011) - Observational documentary about fives days in the life of night watchman who guards the Jardin de Humaya Cemetery. - The final shot is an extreme long shot with a baroque mausoleum centered in frame. We watch Martin watering a dusty road. He works methodically, and then exits frame right.

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MARKS OF THE GENRE: - Successive steps/phases of process are represented - The sequences engross the audience - They either convey are convey the impression of knowledge about the world. PROCESSAL REP. - Gotta show the steps in chronological order. - “Proc. Rep. is a formal achievement” (pg 16) - “only processes can be represented processually and not all representations of process are processual.” (pg17) - Infinitude of steps is going to haunt my neurodivergence forever - We can understand process without perfect continuity. Curation can heighten the representation of process. - Framing of process is vital. Editing and fast motion for long processes, slow motion and animation for short processes. - Film is the privaledged medium here because it can elide time - you can speed up long processes and still accurately represent them. - Important to identify what steps are steps and WHAT STEPS ARE STEPS. You can usually move through steps but you cannot skip over STEPS if you want results. - The curation of process affects how we view the process itself. - A still frame can’t represent process bc it doesn’t convey duration. - Framing is key because it must be visible, and the viewer needs to see the progress of the unfolding action. - You won’t have a POV from the thing being worked on, because then you can’t see it. It will always be a POV ON, but never OF the thing being worked on. (pg22) - In performing process, we don’t digress, wander off, do other things in the middle. We’re focused. DISRUPTIONS ARE AN ANATHEMA TO THE PROCESS GENRE.

- The Mystery of Picasso fails as process bc it suggests something intangible, that even in the repetition of what is represented by it, it would be meaningless. It’s not a how to. It’s not Bob Ross.

- So if the full recording of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations is process... is the recording of the stage show Cats also process? Any theater show? Is each run of a show process? How cool???

- We experience immersion in process. Absorption is the short hand for that here. (Side note: is this why many stage directors want real time cooking on stage? Is it a sort of spectacle of process and realism?)

- Narrative plus process is part of absorption. We get invested.

- “Form-giving activity” is really lovely. It’s all labor, but labor doesn’t have to be paid to be labor.

- Process is concerned with technique.

- Curious about process being the fascination with the craft of the machine paired with (against, alongside, hand in hand?) process also being a fascination of a craftsman making a thing. It’s all technical process.

Resources and Materials in Process: - Sound, how you use sound - Duration, how long a thing is used - Kinesthetic Sympathy (perspective of the maker) - You want sensuous how-tos

THE PROCESS GENRE AS A CINE-GENRE

Images - Pictoral instructions are vital to the DNA of the process genre. How-to struggles in language-only representations.

Moving Image - Mode is too broad to discuss process. You need genre to talk specific critical lens. - It’s a cine-genre because it so naturally lives in film and because it loses something in other mediums that it doesn’t have without being in film - This is because film gets the closest to capturing the infini-steps of process. Because each moment is broken down into smaller instants. No other medium can get that granular with process, yet. Film is fascinated by movement.

[paulinedorchester]

Printed in the Birmingham Post, March 20th, 1942.

Of course, Peek Frean's are not always easy to get. But trust your regular supplier and he'll give you a fair share.

[philipjorourke]

December 17, 1926 by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Presenting Mr M.Brazil's shop at 39 Barronstrand Street, Waterford. The window held a veritable Aladdin's Cave of seasonal delicacies, including: Tom Smith's Christmas Crackers; W & R Jacob & Co. Biscuits; Dates and Turkish Delight; Santa Claus Plum Puddings... They obviously blended their own teas, and advertise Brazil's Good Household Tea at 2/4 a lb.; Special Blend at 3s a lb.; and Superior Blend at 2/8 a lb. Date: 17 December 1926 NLI Ref.: P_WP_3415

[dailyfoodlovers]

To all my felloe Food Heads.

Unfortunately Takeout Tuesday is canceled until further notice as I believe agents of the Peek Freans Cookie Factory have attempted to poison me for my brand disloyalty as I recently purchased a package of Brittania Cookies because my spot started marking up Fruit Crême cookies way more than MSRP allows so I won't be posting any more #TakeoutTuesday! posts until either the cookie prices go down or I get a written letter (printed is fine too as long as the signature is hand written) from the Peek Freans company promising they will not try to poison me anymore or I am able to afford the Fruit Crême cookies again

#TakeoutTuesday!

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[thegikitiki]

Nib-Nobs, 1964

[theiceandbones]

David Lynch when he’s hungry, probably: “time for some David Lunch”

[butts-for-days]

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