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, […]
Category Archives: Mortality
Funereal Foods
In the summer, we tend to reach for lighter fare. Fruits, salads…. detective fiction? On the surface, murder and mystery is an odd choice for beach reading. On the other […]
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 […]
