Link Buffet: Of cookies and coping mechanisms
Hydrox, gingerbread people, and other scandals: 2018 was a difficult year for cookies Atlantic, The Rise of Anxiety Baking This could very easily become a fan blog for Helen Rosner […]
Category Archives: Dessert
Food Music Playlist #21: National Cake Day
Our friends at Foodimentary remind me that today is National Cake Day–a bold statement on a date so close to Thanksgiving, which is typically a carnival of pies. But I […]
Food Playlist #20: Trick or Treat!
Happy Halloween! In honor of a celebration that, even more than Christmas or Valentine’s Day, is defined by an excess of sugar, this week’s playlist is inevitably all about candy. Commentary […]
Food Music Playlist #17: Birthday Cake
My fifth blogiversary isn’t the only milestone this month–this is also the year I finally become old enough to run for president. To celebrate, this month’s playlist features songs about […]
Up close with Thiebaud
I’m experiencing some synchronicity with work by the artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose paintings seem to be adjacent to a number of my research interests. I came across a tantalizing description […]
The Presidential Cookie Bake-Off
In 1992, the public voted for Hilary Clinton’s cookies. How this cookie election came about is a little convoluted. To oversimplify: Clinton’s successful career in law became fodder for political opponents who wished to […]
Link Buffet: Eye Candy
First We Feast interviewed Jacques la Merde, the sophisticated plater of burritos and Bugles posted in the last link roundup. It is in all caps and well peppered with sound […]
Food Music Playlist #11: Heartburn
Last week, at 299 Twitter followers, I offered to let Number 300 pick the next music playlist theme. To my delight, the next follower was one of my favorite bookstores […]
Link Buffet: Sweets for the Sweet
February 5th was World Nutella Day! Sorry if you missed it. I’ve written before about how food holidays come about–most often a brand or food commission will propose that a mayor, […]
Winter chestnuts and other literary comforts
I’ve been reading Lolly Willowes, a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner set at the turn of the 20th century. The story reminds me a lot of the pastoral 19th century novels […]
