Scents and Sensibility: the story of fruit-scented razors
Though I consider myself a conscientious consumer of many products, cosmetics are not among my more researched and careful purchases. When it’s time to buy new razors, for example, I […]
Category Archives: Fruit
All is vanitas
This week at Table Matters, I have a piece up about vanitas paintings, particular those that involve food, and how they try to have it both ways: these beautiful, sumptous, […]
Quick hit: Produce/Producer
This video features Brooklyn-based musician J. Viewz playing Massive Attack’s hauntingly lovely “Teardrop”. . . using fruits and vegetables. And mushrooms. In the first part of the video, J. Viewz explains […]
A palette to appeal to the palate
Colossal had some fun fruits-and-vegetables images up last week. These are by Florent Tanet. The linear arrangement of green tints and tones reminded me a little bit of those swatch […]
Andrew Marvell’s Vegetable Love
Let me begin by declaiming that I am no expert in early modern literature. I did teach-assist one gargantuan class in British Literature, Beginnings-1600; there were about one hundred students […]
One more about food, art, and playing with it
I just added another artist to the Gallery page: Judith G. Klausner. In her series From Scratch, Klausner adds tiny art to food or uses food to make tiny art: […]
The grisly murder of fruit
While waiting for my bus in the morning, I noticed a number of city buses were wearing this advertisement on their sides: My websearch turned up a great many more variations of […]
Federico Garcia Lorca’s alimentary allusions
It’s difficult for me to write about Federico Garcia Lorca because I do not read Spanish and struggle with the reliability of translations. But I keep coming to this poetry […]
