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 […]
Link Buffet: Recommendations
If you’re in a food rut: Brain Pickings, Salvador Dali’s Rare, Erotic Vintage Cookbook If you’re hungry for eye candy: I enjoy the hyperrealistic food paintings posted by Italian artist Marcello […]
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 […]
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 […]
What I’m Cooking: October
My kitchen and I have fallen into a rut. It’s partly that I’ve been busy, which makes it more tempting to buy takeout and premade food. But it’s also because […]
Food Music Playlist #18: Umami
I don’t tweet all that much these days–now that I’m back in a desk job, I am tweeting to the work account all day–but I still like to celebrate when […]
Link Buffet: The Long Link Goodnight
Hello again, blog. I’ve missed this. I spent August and September finishing, defending, and editing my dissertation–and now I can finally kiss that chapter of my life goodbye. I didn’t write […]
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: Resurfacing
Long time no link! I’d explain, but evidently my life is written in the Michelin stars: Lucky Peach astrology has already assessed and prescribed my food fortune. The only quibbles I have with this horoscope are […]
Link Buffet: The Significance of Small Things
At The Establishment, a stunning personal essay by Tracy Wan on cooking and mental health. I particularly like the way she acknowledges how difficult it can be to cook and […]
