Reflections on disgust after tasting Nutraloaf
In an earlier draft of one of my dissertation chapters, I made one or two claims that leaned on the assumption that tasting food is rarely a neutral act and usually elicits […]
Category Archives: Disgust
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 […]
Search Term Sampler: “Late August”
The term that led some anonymous seeker to my site: margaret atwood sex plums exploding That sounds exciting! I’ve definitely written about plums before, and Margaret Atwood does write some […]
Search Term Sampler: Food of the future
Some bloggers love looking at and posting about the strange poetry of search terms that bring internet searchers to our sites. It’s satisfying to see how visible we are in […]
The 5 Second Rule
I recently finished In the Kettle, the Shriek, a collection of poems by Hannah Stephenson, and was delighted to come across a poem called “Five Second Rule.” I do not […]
Sugar, Skin, and Porcelain
Via Colossal, these vintage dishes covered with hand-painted ants by Evelyn Bracklow are delightfully creepy. I love the way the artist mimicks the clustering of ants when they swarm a […]
The metaphors of mass consumerism
Inequality by (interior) Design, a smart sociology blog you should be following if you aren’t already, included a shout-out to Janice Radway in a post describing the way books written […]
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 […]
Eating, enjoyment, and The Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins has been making a bit of a splash in the book business, not least because one of its main characters is morbidly obese. Though I suspect (perhaps with premature […]
I Scream: Little Baby’s gross advertising tactics
I meant to post about Little Baby’s creepy ice cream ad weeks ago, but it fell off my radar until someone dropped a .gif from it into an Email thread, […]
