The Basics
In several relationships over the last few years, I’ve practiced the kitchen rule–like the campsite rule, except that the commitment is to leave my partners better cooks than they were when […]
Tag Archives: food
Happy Valentine’s Day: Links and Love
Those delectable (disgusting) little treats are hand-sculpted human hearts, made from marzipan and doused in probably too much red food coloring. I made them with friends several years ago for […]
Ars Gastronomica: Food, Art, and Pleasure
Last week, I had a post up about the food, art, and aesthetic experience at Table Matters. (Are you reading Table Matters? You should be. Just last week alone […]
Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body
In A Moveable Feast, the chapter “Birth of a New School” begins with Hemingway-as-narrator evoking the coolness and the cleanness of a café early in the morning, a seemingly pure […]
Eating it Up: Food ads from the 80s and 90s that I still can’t forget
When I was writing my piece for Table Matters about the Grey Poupon ad campaigns, I kept remembering how much my family got a kick out of imitating the accents […]
Why is it so hard to get a good food anthology together?
One of my coworkers forwarded me the NYT review of a new anthology of food poems, The Hungry Ear. It was an ambivalent review to say the least; overall, the […]
Taste Test the 3rd
Continuing with my periodic test-tasting in the name of science, I had a go at rating apple juice several weeks ago. This test was very straightforward: we sipped from plastic […]
Inside Out: Medical Students Play With Food
When we epicureans and food culturists talk about food, we’re not really interested in talking about digestion. While other bodily mechanisms may be considered fascinating or elegant–the runner’s fine machine of bone […]
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 […]
Fried chicken for every family and other myths of Southern food
[Cross-posted at Flyover Feminism, an excellent blog for activists in the middle states and other areas often overlooked by major media.] It happened again. I was reading an otherwise perfectly […]
