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The what, the why, the where in the world of food. The new culture of appetite.

A warm, low-lit dining room at service: cooks plate at an open pass behind the counter while diners sit at tables, several looking down at phones and staff carrying tablets.

The Main

The chapter in progress, sampled — with a link back to read it whole.

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Illustration: a sardine drawn in navy engraving lines across torn blocks of brick red, slate blue and olive on cream paper, a cyan machine-vision bracket framing it and a sprig of leaves at the left.

Three Plates

Three things worth your attention. Ideas, stories, things picked up along the way. Served in order, because some are better taken one at a time.

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Illustration: a man in a red jumper smoking a pipe writes by hand at a wooden table, a bowl of garlic bulbs beside him, a stack of books spined Garlic, Food and Society, 1974, and a mug reading A Short Essay.

Five Open Tabs

What was still open in the browser at the end of the week. Five things that stayed — from food and culture to whatever else the feed threw up.

A dinner you cannot post.
A secret society eating beef aorta.
A 1974 essay on garlic.

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Illustration: two swallows drawn in navy engraving lines on aged cream paper, one small bird riding just above the other's back, both in flight with long forked tails.

One Record

A kitchen radio pick. One record worth putting on while the pans are on, the coffee is going down and the day gets started.

Haruomi Hosono, Watering a Flower (1984). Ambient music that makes pasta feel intentional.

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A Swiss postage stamp, 15 Helvetia, reproduced on cream paper: a Rex vegetable peeler stands above a field of identical peelers receding to the horizon under a grey sky, three peeled rings floating beside it.

One Object

The tool, vessel or bit of kit worth the counter space. The things that get used, noticed and kept around because they do something properly.

The iconic Rex vegetable peeler was featured on a Swiss postage stamp in 2004 to celebrate its status as a classic icon of Swiss design. Stamp design Perron-Moehrle, printed by Ensched√©.

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Eat Your Screen

By Gavin James White

Places, people, objects, rituals. An illustration, a photograph, a film, a voice note. Food culture read as it happens.

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