One more about food, art, and playing with it
I just added another artist to the Gallery page: Judith G. Klausner. In her series From Scratch, Klausner adds tiny art to food or uses food to make tiny art: […]
Food Art Opposites
At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the most popular books for children is called Art Museum Opposites. This book juxtaposes some of the museum’s well-known pieces that illustrate […]
Promotional Lip Balm
This morning I realized my tube of coconut-shea butter-whatever lip balm had run low, so I grabbed another tube from the jumbled assortment of flavored, moisturizing, sun-screening lip balms I […]
Funereal Foods
In the summer, we tend to reach for lighter fare. Fruits, salads…. detective fiction? On the surface, murder and mystery is an odd choice for beach reading. On the other […]
Bread, Milk, and Eggs
A friend of mine is a philosophy scholar who specializes in applying Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy to the tourism and travel industry. I recently came across the following quote in one […]
The grisly murder of fruit
While waiting for my bus in the morning, I noticed a number of city buses were wearing this advertisement on their sides: My websearch turned up a great many more variations of […]
The Faces of Food
Some time ago, an in-flight magazine presented me with the fanciful foodscapes of Carl Warner. Warner’s Food Landscapes are scenes built out of edible materials, mostly in their own shape: […]
Federico Garcia Lorca’s alimentary allusions
It’s difficult for me to write about Federico Garcia Lorca because I do not read Spanish and struggle with the reliability of translations. But I keep coming to this poetry […]
She didn’t even bring her own carrots
I recently read The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer. The central conflict of the book is a modern-day Lysistrata-inspired sex strike, but the novel investigates this occurence with a great deal […]
