food
The last of the tomatoes are coming in now, wide and cracked, heavy with the captured humidity of passing summer, each one a Neruda poem shedding its own light, benign majesty. It is time to eat them, these sunsets of the season, then put away our flip-flops and face the fall.
Dear Sam Sifton: You are [...]
At the bagel place yesterday, there were monstrous Mother’s Day cupcake-muffin hybrids taking over much of the counter. They must have been corn muffins, the kind that are so dense they can do real damage to anything they’re thrown at. In general, eating them is not the greatest idea, but these ones were practically pulsing [...]
what’s your flavor?
I’m used to perfume being marketed as something that should complement the essence of my being, but this commercial points out a missed opportunity: My marinade sauce should really capture my personality, too.
Who needs therapy? Lawry’s sauce understands you.
“I’m always exciting, and a little exotic.” Then sesame ginger is your sauce! “I’m earthy, with a [...]
About halfway through, this Times article about people who take pictures of their food gets all serious:
That some people are keeping photographic food diaries and posting them online does not surprise psychotherapists. “In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretaker,” said Kathryn Zerbe, a psychiatrist [...]