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Best Food Writing of 2014

A Literary Buffet Editor: Holly Hughes You’re probably familiar with the Best American annual anthologies, which compile the year’s best writing in topics ranging from science to sports to comics and mystery stories (these have saved my holiday-giving bacon year after year with difficult-to-shop-for relatives). There’s even one for infographics, which I’m not sure counts as “writing.” But one category the Best American series doesn’t include is food writing. Fortunately, the Best Food Writing series picks up the slack, and the 2014 edition features 400-plus pages of tasty bite-size treats. Dozens of food writers, chefs, authors, and bloggers contributed to [...]

2016-12-31T17:54:36-07:00November 24th, 2014|Tags: , , , , |

Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants

Ursus hilarious... Author:  Matthew Inman As anyone knows, oatmeal is a popular porridge made from oats – a weed that was domesticated in Bronze Age Europe – but The Oatmeal is of much more recent origin.  The nom de keyboard of comic writer Matthew Inman – a resident of the hip Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, Washington – The Oatmeal shares his nickname with a wildly successful comic website that he launched in 2009.  Since then, Inman has gone on to publish several books and make a small fortune selling calendars, coffee cups and the like. Having enjoyed How to Tell [...]

2016-12-31T17:54:36-07:00November 23rd, 2014|Tags: |

Dracula

Dawn of the Undead... Author:  Bram Stoker Few creatures have proven more durable in modern literature than the dreaded vampire.  Ever since these undead, blood sucking demons of the night first began appearing in literature in the early 19th century, each generation has taken the opportunity to reinvent the infamous characters.  For reasons that remain unclear to me, it seems that vampires have become even more popular over the last few decades.  Having fallen victim to this cultural obsession myself on occasion, I was curious to explore where it all began, with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897. While Stoker [...]

2016-12-31T17:54:37-07:00November 23rd, 2014|Tags: |
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