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Yesterday, Nicola was saying that food blogs can be a bit girly. Let me tell you, there’s nothing girly about processing maize to make tortillas.
Rachel Laudan, author of the forthcoming book A World History of Food
Nicola Twiley, whose food-blog Edible Geography is not girly, and is one of my daily reads, has posted the transcript of a talk by Rachel Laudan about “the intersection of food, class, and economics in contemporary Mexico.” Fascinating stuff!
I created a map out of Grub Street’s list of the 101 Best Sandwiches in New York. 10 down, 91 to go.
omg.
(via youngna)
Hey, Hot Shot! - HHS! Contender: Amy Stevens
The Confections series started as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, cake, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original intent was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my first show, but I sure got a lot of ideas from those first cakes. When I started the project, I not only had to learn how to shoot in a studio setting, but also how to bake and decorate cakes. I ordered a cake decorating kit from Marthastewart.com and watched the included instructional video. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video and recipe booklet, I was free to make them as grotesque and amazing as possible—my little rebellion.
Four years later I am still making these crazy confections and still obsessing over color and pattern.
Amazingness.
Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975, by Martha Rosler
“Extreme Makeover, Weiner Edition: RKS Redesigns the Deadly Hot Dog”
This is kind of brilliant and absolutely revolting.
I don’t really eat hot dogs, but it freaks me out to think about food as something that is manufactured and designed. Even worse, this redesign was prompted by over-zealous safety experts who are worried that cylindrical shaped, esophagus sized hot dogs are a choking hazard to children. “When it’s wedged in tightly, that child is going to die.” says Dr. Gary Smith, former chairman of the AAP’s Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention. This, unfortunately, is not a joke.
Food—mostly excluding food packaging—is definitely one of the areas where lack of design* is the most appealing option**.
(via Fast Company, redesignrelated)
* Hot dogs, being a man made creation (*shudder*), are designed objects, but they are so utilitarian that it’s arguably more natural not to think about them as “designed.”
** Except to children? Think: Rugrats Mac and Cheese and Gogurt
Yum.
Todd Selby of The Selby photographs the beans-to-bars process at Mast Brothers Chocolate Factory.
(via youngna)
