We’re going to take the day off, topically speaking, to delve into areas better left to those typically showing more breadth and depth. But we wanted to point you, to, of all things, emanations from the Conde Nast empire, namely, the August issue of Gourmet.
In it, you will find some writing that seems so out of place for what anyone might be inclined to dismiss as a basically a sleeve for food porn and product placement that it verges on stunning: David Foster Wallace offers thoughts on the Maine Lobster Festival, musing on, in great detail — and in a way that makes us appreciate his writing syle in a way that hundreds of slavish write-ups could not — the possbility that cooking lobster is barbarity on par with the moral and social structure of the Romans and Mayans, and an article about the purported significance of design in wine glasses being basically bunko (with hilarious asides about such research blinds that included adding food coloring to a white wine and convincing professional tasters it was a red). Aside from the fact that both of these articles attack many of the implicit assumptions about the life of the gourmand head on, they are also sharp and intelligent writing.
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Lobster, wine glasses, and nary a building in sight.
We’re going to take the day off, topically speaking, to delve into areas better left to those typically showing more breadth and depth. But we wanted to point you, to, of all things, emanations from the Conde Nast empire, namely, the August issue of Gourmet.
In it, you will find some writing that seems so out of place for what anyone might be inclined to dismiss as a basically a sleeve for food porn and product placement that it verges on stunning: David Foster Wallace offers thoughts on the Maine Lobster Festival, musing on, in great detail — and in a way that makes us appreciate his writing syle in a way that hundreds of slavish write-ups could not — the possbility that cooking lobster is barbarity on par with the moral and social structure of the Romans and Mayans, and an article about the purported significance of design in wine glasses being basically bunko (with hilarious asides about such research blinds that included adding food coloring to a white wine and convincing professional tasters it was a red). Aside from the fact that both of these articles attack many of the implicit assumptions about the life of the gourmand head on, they are also sharp and intelligent writing.