Potato-based photographs of the Progressive Era
Earlier this week I dropped in to see The Artist’s Garden at PAFA, an exhibit I’ve been excited to see since I worked on the exhibit catalog for my previous […]
Earlier this week I dropped in to see The Artist’s Garden at PAFA, an exhibit I’ve been excited to see since I worked on the exhibit catalog for my previous […]
I’ve been enjoying a reread of Barthes’ Mythologies, a collection of short semiotic studies of the foods, entertainments, and obsessions of mass culture. In “Wine and Milk,” Barthes picks up on an idea […]
Artist Hannah Rothstein plates traditional Thanksgiving dinners in the style of modern artists such as Mondrian: At NPR, the ever-sharp Linda Holmes has a delightful takedown of NYT’s list of Thanksgiving […]
Love this Pantone beer packaging: Gastro-architecture by Nicholas Blechman: Savor the Science is quickly becoming my favorite feature at the RENDER blog. I had a general idea about plant chemical […]
With food, it’s not just that the personal is political. How we eat, what we buy, and where we get it are deeply influenced by the circulation of food, money, […]
Contemporary discussions of food issues are so often hindered by slippery statistics and dubious science, so I’ve been enjoying a site which playfully makes a point out of “correlation does […]
It made me sad to see my blog so empty for the month of May while I had my hands full with some big work projects. I went into my […]
We’ve been getting snow after snow this month, and have lost several days at the office (as well as heat in our building!) due to inclement weather. One afternoon, as […]
. . . legal and cultural. I’ve been meaning to post this forever, but in the Spring 2012 Dissent, Mark Engler offers a straightforward, informative overview of three movements toward ethical growing and […]
It’s Brassica time, people. This week we got: cabbage, romaine, sugar snap peas, scallions, garlic scapes, cauliflower, kale, and kohlrabi. I bought asparagus and strawberries from the farmstand while they […]