Talking books, keeping summer boredom at bay, and the world’s strangest pizza topping. Continue reading
Category Archives: Food
The ultimate summer cake recipe
Called “one of 2018’s biggest and most controversial trends” by The Washington Post, edible glitter was invented for the cake decorating industry to garnish display cakes. By January, the FDA had to issue an advisory warning. Continue reading
Everything I know about glitter is wrong
Recently, I got to thinking about glitter. What is it made of? When was it invented? Most important of all, what would happen if someone baked it into a cake and ate it? Continue reading
Emily Dickinson reviews Japanese candy
The gloom of night is swept away
As by a scouring broom—
Dawn’s golden-fingered beams reveal
A curious mushroom. Continue reading
Laura Ingalls Wilder reviews a candy bar
The bright circle of lamplight fell across shining plates heaped with Ma’s good bread.
“Here’s something to round out the supper, girls,” said Pa. Continue reading
e.e. cummings reviews a candy bar
on a
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pinkandsilver wrapped
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Dorothy Parker reviews a candy bar
Into these trembling hands has lately fallen a candy bar that promised sweet deliverance from the bitter reapings of the sober life. From Japan, land of the raisin rum, came a peculiar variety of Kit Kat infused with the savor of demon alcohol. Continue reading
