I posted this elsewhere online a couple of weeks ago. But it occurs to me that I ought to mention it here too. Kiva.org — the microlending website — is offering a special while-supplies-last promotion where, if you sign up for an account and start making loans, they’ll give you an extra $25.00 to get […]
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Salem Witch Trials Memorial
I can imagine you all in my mind’s eye — right now, as I write — tapping your collective foot and looking at your collective timepiece, sighing a collective sigh, and proclaiming in a huff: he’s late!. I can also imagine that you haven’t noticed. Not. At. All. Either way, it’s true. I am late […]
Twice Cooked: The Newest Nominee for “The Homies 2012”
It looks, thanks to intrepid friend-of-the-blog Beth, like our own dear Twice Cooked has received a last-minute nomination for a 2012 Homie award in the category of “Best Food Photography on a Blog.” I could hardly begrudge you for not wanting to go out of your way to make a whole new account on a […]
Cate Blanchett, Photography, and Mimesis
So … a non-food-related aside: Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer made this post a few days ago about the March / April cover of Intelligent Life, a European satellite magazine of The Economist, which features an image of Cate Blanchett, untouched by the Photoshop brush. Very daring, he calls it. And then he writes: […]
Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
Food blogging will recommence shortly, with a new guest post, and with some extensive musings from me about the legs of pigs. But for now, you may consider this my Christmas card to all of you. These images are from the interior of the Antoni Gaudí designed Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, […]
Some thoughts on Occupy
I have not written here about the Occupy movement, or about very much else to do with politics either, in part because I had conceived of this space pretty narrowly. And though the masthead reads Cooking, Eating, Politics, just cooking and eating seemed like more than enough to deal with. But given recent events in […]