Food & Drink
Doughnuts and American Ingenuity
Every day at 7:15AM my wife and I enter the red line station at the corner of Sheridan Road and Loyola Avenue. We are part of a steady stream of commuters that enters through the d...
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Foodies and the Transcendent Table
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Starbucks Lifestyle: A Poetic Reflection
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Snobbery and the
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True King Corn -
Intro to Pastry
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Hold the Chicken
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Banana Split Cake: All-American Dessert
June 29, 2012
The Art of Drinking Tea
On the third of July, I sat on my back porch with a cup of English Breakfast. I was there to write an essay about the Fourth of July. As is often my way, I look to the things around me to inform my writing path at any particular moment. It makes my life simpler to write synergistically (if you do not want to become part of my essays, you should probably leave the room, or the porch, when I begin putting words to ...
Summer Comfort
What can a classic summer comfort food teach us about moving from slacktivism to action? Close your eyes and picture it: your favorite comfort food. It’s crusty, maybe, or cheesy, and even a little gooey. Mine is surrounded by a full table near a warm fire on a fall or winter’s night. Odd, isn’t it then, that I can’t stop thinking about the idea of summer comfort food? But that’s the term swirlin...
Good Work and Beer Culture
After a seismic economic collapse and a rather dreary decade as a whole, there have been a few new trends that would look curious if they weren’t surrounded by the debris of a recession. One of these trends is beer. Beer has always been popular in our country, but always in different ways. It’s an old story to discuss the recent dominance of microbreweries over macrobreweries. The shift that we’ve seen in th...
The Pizza That Ought To Be
Atlanta likes to think of itself as the New York City of the South—or rather, as a southern alternative to New York. Unfortunately, outside of the southeastern United States, Atlanta doesn’t get mentioned in the same breath as New York. When global cities or cities of influence are rattled off by tastemakers, Atlanta simply doesn’t rank with New York, Chicago, San Francisco. This is especially obvious in the...
Making Time for Tea
There is almost nothing I enjoy more than an afternoon tea with my mother, grandmother, or sisters. Ever since I can remember, tea time has been an occasion (when celebrated) punctuated by a spirit of restfulness and contentment. When I was about ten, I received one of my most prized possessions - a porcelain white English tea set, complete with six octagonally-shaped cups, and a bodacious pot for holding steamy b...
A Cheese Story
I am rarely romanced by agriculture. I grew up in a rural part of Michigan, raised by a man who enjoyed working the land and a woman who learned how to put things up. Our home garden provided a yield that usually outlasted the winter: frozen beans, corn relish, canned tomatoes, apple butter. We had a modest number of chickens, a root cellar filled with potatoes and squash, and the occasional temporary livestock we...
Resolved: Placemats
My goal for 2009 was to stop setting goals. Having been a compulsive goal setter from the age of 10 when I posted my New Year's Resolutions on a lined paper beside my bed, by my enlightened mid-twenties I had come to believe that I should accept myself, flaws and all. So I made the difficult resolution not to make any resolutions at all. Well, I didn't keep that resolution. So my goal for 2010 is to become a scari...
