Cabbage

And I feel like that has really given me the confidence and, you know, in a way that the book was received, but also in my own experience of writing it, I feel like I've unlocked something something slightly different in myself as a writer.

So I have really been on a more different, more kind of confident, different journey since Kapusta.

And writing Loshka has been a really... meaningful experience in so many different ways.

And I'm really touched and I'm really glad to hear that you felt that this comes across because it did feel as a kind of, I felt like I was a different writer when I was doing this book.

But at the same time, it's almost like you can give yourself permission to relax a little bit and stop feeling like, oh, am I getting this right? Am I allowed to say this? And, you know, it's my third book, and it took me a while to get from book number one to book number two.

So there's been a lot of kind of... soul-searching and, you know, experimenting with different writing styles and different kind of genres of food writing in between the first and the second book.

So by the time Kapusta came around and it's been doing so well, I really feel like it's been a really important shift for me.

So when I came into writing Loshka, I kind of, you know, my back was a bit more kind of straight and upright.

Yeah, it really is like, okay, we have like one hour of this being, uh, Karen and Hikari again, and then, um, the other hour is just our other pairings fucking around and having another scene.

I will say, just, just to peg it right now 'cause I think it kind of comes up around this time, uh, Cabbage giraffe Suda best-

Uh-

Vege-

was scrubbing his back pretty intense.

I don't want to use names, but Stacy downstairs was talking to me, and she heard us talking about Blood and Cabbage, the girl that's ruining the bathroom that we can't name because women aren't as cool as men when it comes to being outed for terrible behavior in the bathroom.

Not like we can Scott Taylor.

You all right? Well, because you're making this face like you can barely live another minute, and then you just disappear.

[laughs]

If we started to, to, if we started to, to, uh, out Blood and Cabbage by name, it's bad.

And we all know who it is, but you can't out Blood and Cabbage because if she, if she starts crying, you're a jerk.

You know who didn't cry? Mark Neanderpal.

Neanderpal fought it.

[laughs]

We have to figure out a way to shame females that do the same thing.

And old Blood and Cabbage downstairs has the ladies on a hook, but they're all afraid to say anything.