Link Buffet: Throwback Thursday
Everything on today’s link list is giving me nostalgia for the music, media, and fascination with wearable candy of the 80s and 90s. From Sociological Images, a brief history of how […]
Category Archives: Advertising
Mad Men: “We can have the connection that we’re hungry for.”
Last week on Mad Men‘s midseason finale, Peggy Olson got her chance to shine in a pitch that rivaled Don’s Season 1 carousel spiel: a moment when advertising seems to transcend marketing and become poetry, […]
The flight of the kiwi
Via Mashable, I’ve been enjoying these food maps by Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves. (They are also the duo behind a photo of a deep-fried iPad that astonished me in […]
Carly, Cupcakes, and Thou–new sonnets by Nicole Steinberg
I was excited to receive my copy of Nicole Steinberg’s new book of poetry in the mail today. As I’ve posted on Scribal Tattoo, Getting Lucky is a volume of […]
The Semiotics of Spam
I’ve been thinking a lot about spam. This blog remains a fairly quiet corner of the internet where I can happily hold forth about food and books without feeling too […]
Link Buffet: Making a Scene
Oddly, I have two arty links about lettuce and two for jellybeans this week. Fair and balanced reportage! I just saw this Requiem for a Lettuce at Edible Geography today: a […]
The Stream re-cap: junk food, marketing, and more
On Thursday afternoon, I had the exciting opportunity to join Yazmin Khan, Yoni Freedhoff, and Hemi Weingarten on Google Hangout to talk to Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat. […]
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 […]
Your junk food preference is probably not an addiction
At Table Matters last week, I wrote about complicated relationships to the simple pleasures of junk food, arguing that the way we so often frame these foods as “addictive” erases […]
The Environmental Attaché
Yesterday there was a package waiting on my stairs. I was perplexed: I hadn’t ordered anything recently and wasn’t expecting any gifts. And then I opened it. . . . […]
