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April 2009

Food Fantasies

Sunday, April 26, 2009

“My toaster oven was put to far more interesting use. I began with toasted cheese, that staple of starving people who live in garrets.”
—Laurie Colwin, “Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant.”
A surreal recipe from provincial France, and a glimpse of the private pleasures of food writer Laurie Colwin.


Indian Country

Sunday, April 19, 2009

“’OK,’ said Loman, as he stood in the telephone booth. Crazy Horse didn’t need Tums. ‘OK. Think.’ He took a deep breath; he wondered if the world was a cruel place.”
—Sherman Alexie, “Indian Country.”
A successful Native American author cannot plot his own life.


Family Relations

Sunday, April 12, 2009

“"Don't you notice anything different about Uncle Rondo?" asks Stella-Rondo.
"Why, no, except he's got on some terrible-looking flesh-colored contraption I wouldn't be found dead in, is all I can see," I says.
"Never mind, you won't be found dead in it, because it happens to be part of my trousseau…”
--Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Families—comic, surreal, and touching--in a quartet of stories classic and contemporary.