by Nicola | Apr 19, 2012
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... by Nicola | Apr 9, 2012
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... by Nicola | Apr 2, 2012
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,... by Nicola | Apr 2, 2012
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...