via flickr/Jeff Nelson In “patting men on the back for accomplishing the most mundane tasks in the world” news, the Wall Street Journal offers this article about men who dare venture into the grocery store. And boy oh boy, is…
Dunno if Stephen Dorff hangs out at the Vaporium, but it’s probably a safe bet? Japanese App Lets You Smell Food Through Your Phone, says First We Feast, getting me all irrationally het up about some hypothetical scenarios that, in…
via flickr/Claus Rebler Apparently, most people don’t think humans can eat millet, or else they’re just terrified by new things. And I guess that’s just people, but it seems weird to me when framed in a way that opposes scary…
via flickr/Cameron Parkins Here are some things that come up when you search “pizza art” on flickr! via flickr/Kevin Bowman via flickr/Newtown graffiti Seeing as how we already have a pizza museum here, it might be more trouble than it’s…
via Flickr/bamatini (Standard disclaimer: This post references last week’s episode of Breaking Bad and the links within may contain spoilers, so do what you gotta do.) As a total killjoy, I cannot personally endorse this Pinterest-ready roundup of “8 Breaking…
Neal Santos This week’s guest editor at Food52 was Yotam Ottolenghi, which of course was going to mean some good recipes, but still I was blindsided by this cake. That cake is now the only food I’m willing to accept…
Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. This Paris Review piece by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan has it all: a dead author, a burger recipe, historical groceries. (That’s my actual checklist. It’s universal and I face a…
via flickr/Petras Gagilas When you turn to the internet in search of something that will drive you completely crazy, it’s a pretty safe bet that the New York Times lifestyle content will deliver. Normally the real gold lies in the…
via flickr/Robert Banh Once upon a time, I was tasked by a chemistry teacher to design, conduct and present an experiment. Now, I was always a bit of a lazy student when it came to the hard sciences, but the…
via flickr/Jason Lam Thanks to the Boston Globe for introducing me to the work of Deborah Gewertz, one of a trio of anthropologists responsible for the latest addition to my to-read list: a study of the history and global impact…