Voters Bearing Forks

IMAGE: Of New York City’s eleven 2013 Mayoral candidates, six attended the city’s first ever Food Forum. Original photograph via The New York Times; red Xs added by me to mark non-attendees. Those of us who care about the human and environmental...

Eat, Play, Golf

Golf, with a couple of hacks, can be a surprisingly delicious-looking game. Cutting golf balls in half, for example, reveals delightfully bonbon-esque interiors. All golf ball cross-section photographs by James Friedman. These cross-sections are the work of Ohio-based...

Menu Accession

I am somewhat astonished to find that I haven’t written about the New York Public Library’s amazing menu collection on Edible Geography before. IMAGE: A pizza delivery menu from Radisson Hotels, 1987. NYPL Menu Collection. NYPL Culinary Collections...

Perishable: An Exhibition

A couple of years (!) ago, I mentioned that I would be working with the Center for Land Use Interpretation on an exhibition exploring the U.S. cold chain. I’m delighted to announce that the result of that collaboration, Perishable: An Exploration of the...

Requiem for a Lettuce

A couple of months ago, Leonardo Amico, an interaction designer based at Fabrica, connected romaine lettuce leaves into an electrical circuit, attached a CMOS logic chip and a couple of oscillators to transform the voltage into tone, and recorded the result. Although...