Nº 17: Fernanda Amis
Writer, illustrator and actress Fernanda Amis supplies you with her recommendations. She nominates guy-friend-group movies, reveals her Cobb salad recipe and why she 'always takes it as a friendship'.
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Fernanda Amis is a Londoner turned New Yorker, alleged writer, indelible illustrator, would-be filmmaker, and actor whenever she gets the chance.
☞ GUY-FRIEND-GROUP MOVIES: One of my favorite genres is guy-friend-group movies. I suggest a marathon. Recommendations: Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach’s first movie about recent graduates turned cynical layabouts), Swingers (Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn go to Vegas, hang out at the hot music and dance venues of 90s LA, and try forever unsuccessfully to get laid), Superbad, The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas...
☞ ADVICE: When you meet someone new, even if you think he or she is hot, don’t try to turn it romantic and don’t expect sex. Always take it for a friendship. If there are any real romantic feelings, they will come out as you get to know the person. If it’s just sex you’re after, waiting a little while will make it—and you—hotter.
☞ TONY’S CHOCOLONELY: Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate bars. Big and chunky, Tony’s is a sentimental chocolate for me; intrigued by the size and packaging, I bought some in a hipster grocery store in Oregon and shared it with two close friends on the floor of our seaside hotel room. What is more, as a sugar addict, I find it helpful to carry around a big unopened bar of chocolate; having an abundance of it makes me never want to eat it.
☞ COBB SALAD: For my dinner night on a trip with friends I made something I’d never prepared or eaten before: Cobb Salad. Before I began I overheard my friends expressing doubt about my choice and my ability to prepare it, but the results were ingested greedily and happily. My recipe for Cobb salad is slightly different to the original in lettuce and dressing: instead of iceberg I used shredded mixed greens slightly sticky with mayonnaise. The rest of the ingredients were standard: chicken breast, crumbled bacon, crumbled blue cheese or gorgonzola, sliced avocado, boiled egg, sliced green onions, cubed tomatoes. For the chicken: cut a breast into small pieces and pan fry with cilantro, soy sauce, olive oil, honey dijon mustard, salt, pepper, and a pinch of finely chopped garlic if you can be bothered. For the dressing: mix honey dijon mustard, olive oil, balsamic vinegar (half as much vinegar as olive oil), a micro dollop of mayonnaise, salt, pepper, cilantro, a few drops of kalamata olive juice if you dare, and garlic if you can be bothered. For classy plating, put a fistful of salad at the centre of the plate, and line it with a handful of each of the other ingredients. At the table drizzle your desired amount of dressing over everything and mix it all up.
☞ FOLLOW: @famispictures, because I’ve been drawing my whole life and I’d someday love to live off them. Muses include: MAGA people, Floridians, fast food chains, naked women...
♪ LISTENING TO: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City by Harry Nilsson, If I Ever Was a Child by Wilco, The Worst Person in the World soundtrack, the Annette soundtrack, soundtracks in general
☠︎ HATES: bad laughs, people who don’t read books only because they consider the themes immoral, seeing someone you went to college with five years later acting and dressed as a completely different archetype (e.g. banker bros reinventing themselves as artistes).
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