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Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Axis of Food
La Central de Abasto de la Ciudad de México is enormous. It sprawls across a 327 hectare site on the eastern edge of the D.F., dwarfing fellow wholesale food markets such as Hunt's Point (24 hectares), Tsukiji (23 hectares), or even the massive Rungis, outside Paris (232 hectares).
Posted in Day Out, Postopolis! DF, Uncategorized 9 Comments
Talking Nose
Artist Sissel Tolaas was one of the people I most wanted to speak at Postopolis! DF, having seen her discussing smell as design in New York earlier this year. Although she was not able to join us in person, she generously allowed me to screen her olfactory investigation of Mexico City, Talking Nose — which was also the first time the video and soundtrack had been seen and heard in the place where it was made.
Posted in Postopolis! DF, Smellscapes, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Julio the Sewer Diver
Long-time Pruned readers (which I encourage you all to become, if you are not already) might remember a short post from January 2007, which introduced Carlos Barrios, a former accountant turned official Mexico City sewer diver. These Washington Post descriptions of his workday spent immersed in “garbage, bacteria, excrement, dead animals—even the occasional murder victim” [...]
Posted in Digest, Postopolis! DF, Uncategorized 8 Comments
Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution
Apologies for the prolonged silence here at Edible Geography. It is one of the ironies of Postopolis!—the blogger-curated “Ponzi scheme of ideas” (in the words of its co-founder Joseph Grima) whose most recent iteration took place last week in Mexico City—that there is not really enough time to post during the event itself.
Posted in Digest, Postopolis! DF, Uncategorized 5 Comments
Postopolis! DF: Schedule Announced
IMAGE: Canned chiles in a Mexico City supermarket by Flickr user hmerinomx. With less than a week to go, the schedule for Postopolis! DF has been announced, and it’s going to be an amazing week. I’m especially excited to introduce the speakers I invited, who (if I do say so myself) make an eclectic, prestigious, [...]
Posted in Postopolis! DF, Uncategorized 3 Comments
The Dust of Our Ancestors
A couple of weeks ago, Berlusconi mouthpiece Il Giornale ran an article alleging that Naples' pizza ovens are fuelled by "wood from coffins dug up in the local cemetery":
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The Tyburn Angling Society