Link Buffet: Fashionable Tastes
At Colossal: “Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit.” You know the New Yorker–this article is sort of about […]
Category Archives: Fruit
Food Playlist #19: Apple songs + Magritte paintings
For the northern half of the western hemisphere, apples carry many meanings. Apples are simple, wholesome, pastoral pleasures; they are gifts for the teacher and ingredients for the stay-at-home mother. They are […]
Heat by H.D.
This morning was one of those heavy, humid mornings, hotter and sunnier than a morning has any right to be before 9 o’clock. It put me in mind of […]
Link Buffet: Hints and Notes
A couple blog notes: I added a “Chronologies” page to my Bibliographies tab, and I’ll add more permanent timelines or histories as I come across them. One of the links […]
Food Music Playlist #9: Strawberry Jams
Strawberries, roses, and chocolate: the trifecta of Valentine’s Day foods. Roses and chocolate both have long histories of romantic and sexual connotations, so it’s not surprising that they remain popular […]
Ain’t Jokin (about watermelon, among other things)
At the National Book Awards last month, author and ceremony host Daniel Handler soured the proceedings by making a racist joke at the expense of the author Jacqueline Woodson, whose […]
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 […]
Link Buffet: Food for the eyes
I’m delighted to be participating in Deborah Hemming’s Women in the Kitchen series, which explores the different relationships specific women have with cooking and kitchen spaces. As you may have […]
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 […]
Odes to Plums
“The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love, and savoring murmur full in the mouth and falling like fruit taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked […]
