Dark Arts Summit

IMAGE: A nugget of pure Doritos flavour dust unearthed from the bottom of a lucky bag and subsequently put up for auction on eBay. Do you have a considered opinion on how small a crisp or tortilla chip fragment has to be before it is not worth eating, or are you the...

Comets, Not Moons

IMAGE: Yogurt foil, photographed by Stanley Greenberg. After I wrote about his image of the abandoned champagne cellar beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, photographer Stanley Greenberg emailed me to say that he had also begun working on a series of photographs of the...

Taketh One Unicorn

IMAGE: “Detail of a unicorn on the grill,” courtesy the British Library. Yesterday, in a charming April Fool, the British Library’s Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts bloggers breathlessly reported the discovery of a long-lost medieval cookbook,...

Fake Cinnamon Joins Artificial Vanilla and Wins

Earlier this year, Sarah Lohman of the historical gastronomy blog Four Pounds Flour and Jonathan Soma of the Brooklyn Brainery launched a monthly “bar room lecture series” on food called “Masters of Social Gastronomy” (MSG for short). Although...