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 […]
