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erry Arena, whose large-scale installation received the Board of Director’s Award at this year’s Baja Biennial, lives in the rich agricultural region of Ventura, California, where she teaches the fundamentals…

Somewhere, in an email nearly a decade old now, and in reference to a conversation I can’t quite recall, Sesshu Foster wrote something to the effect of “there’s a difference…

Whether or not I sound like a shill for Starbucks, as the Latte Macchiato is their hot new drink, I care not. Full disclosure: Starbucks corporate offices did not pay…

We learn to tie a maraschino stem with our tongues before we meet you, learn to peel away the wrapper of a Starburst square with our teeth (and suck), dry…

Midsummer noon, just outside the knot of angular skyscrapers that mark downtown Houston, I pull up to a clapboard building across the street from a lumber dealer and release a burning…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first celebration of Thanksgiving “was held by the Plymouth colony in 1621, in thankfulness for their first harvest in America after a year of…

The Southern woman in me brings food to misfortune – potato casserole crusted with corn flakes, pound cake soaked in sugar and rum – an apology for not taking the blow…

Egg  His daughter walks up to a small crowd huddled in a semi-circle. A woman is selling hard boiled eggs cooked in volcanic water. White orbs bobbing in a bowl-sized indent in…

My sister took a picture and called it “The Food Chain.” A dry earthworm, thick with road dust, clamped in the bright jaw of a mockingbird trapped in the chrome…

I am drawn to the scene in Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica where teenage model Alison gorges herself on marzipan animals, sugared almonds, figs, “big fat olives” and fancy nuts when left…

My four-year-old’s blonde curls fall into her face as she eats black beans out of her plastic monster dish. Heaping them on the fat, ergonomically toddler spoon until they spill…

Sometimes, when I especially miss my mom – which lately, has felt like all the time – I’ll think about the ways I used to ask her what Vietnamese dishes…

Here is the second installment of Anna Strain’s illustrated series of Presidents of the United States next to their favorite snack foods. I could really go for some cabbage right…

Artist Anna Strain offers you the first in a weekly series of infographics illustrating all of the presidents of the United States of America next to their favorite snack foods.…