Cosmic Fruit
Exploring food, hunger, desire, and delight, through literature, art, politics, and leaps into the speculative.
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“Garlic: The Poor Man’s Spice” in Orion Magazine (opens the original)
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I’m thrilled to have a new essay in Orion Magazine today, about garlic and class. This is my fifth essay to appear in Orion, and they are all part of the essay collection I’ve been working on, on food and cultural memory. The collection has the same title as this substack, Cosmic Fruit (the title essay was the first piece of mine that Orion published).</
“Soup Baths,” “Children’s Food,” and “Beef Sausage on a Pink Leather Couch” in Bluestem Magazine (opens the original)
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