Mmm, Peeps. That marshmallowy goodness, that delicate drip of a beak. How I love those little chickadees and bunnies, with their beady little eyes! And now, a Peeps first: an official store has opened in DC’s National Harbor. More Peeps art here. The dark side of Peeps here and here. Terra Cotta Peeps Warriors here. And [...]
Archive for the ‘Food’ category
Saturday morning at the Dane County Farmers’ Market
A big guy in a hunter orange boiler suit, bright orange Crocs, and a long white beard plays the piccolo there every week. I call him Prison Santa. A kid who can’t be more than fifteen or sixteen sits on the curb with a guitar. He seems like just one more embryonic hippie until he [...]
How to make a s’more
Here’s how to make a s’more if you don’t have a campfire, marshmallows, graham crackers or Hershey’s chocolate. The dirty little secret is: You don’t really need any of those things! Step 1: Get some mini Nilla Wafers. You should have these on hand already, but if you don’t, just buy them. Step 2: Get [...]
Bonus playlist Wednesday: dessert edition
(Download Part 1, “Soul Food: dinner edition,” here.) The connection between sweetness and pleasure is part of our evolutionary makeup. Sweet flavors are the first we develop the ability to sense; the message that calorie-rich, life-giving sustenance is on the way floods our brains with dopamine and makes us seek out more sweet flavors, creating [...]
Bonus playlist Wednesday: soul food edition
Remember the theme mix? Used to be something you crafted over days or even weeks, linking up lyrical motifs and musical patterns into a coherent whole that explored an idea or told a story. Searchable databases have changed all that. Now I can type any word into iTunes—say, “book”—and get a perfectly bookish playlist that [...]
The Monday Photo (dinner & dancing)
The closing events of the first (annual?) Brooklyn Food Conference. A great pagan feast! (in a high school cafeteria.)
You gotta eat, right?
So I should probably be writing about swine flu or government jets buzzing Manhattan, something vital and current. But you know what? At the end of all the debates and anxiety, you still have to eat dinner, and unless you’re enjoying an AIG golden parachute, that means cooking at home. What are you going to [...]
