Visionaries rarely get their due and supermarkets are fascinating.
Whenever making it to a new country, it seems the sightseeing I find myself engaging in wanes from the epic and grand, instead turning to the mundane and ordinary. Enter the supermarket. Through a tumultuous past and half way across the world, the supermarket [...]
It’s simple to end up in a place in Mumbai that is insipidly chic, ambiguously pulsating, and completely full of itself. I will find myself at parties or bars and inevitably things will drone on and wit in conversation will seem like something from a dream. When that happens, stepping away to have [...]
And only I was left by the window. My eyes probed the silent night, I was gnawed by the wild beast of memory, and sleep would not come.
- Isaac Babel
And then I ate.
Fame and glory abound for the ingesting of either quantity or obscurity. That seems ubiquitous these days. Competitive eating comes in clips on shows that mock everything except themselves and dining on the bizarre has become a television ritual of understanding another culture rather than an ethnocentric exaltation of the other that [...]
Here’s a link to a piece on competitive eating written for NowNow Magazine in Melbourne Australia.
Competitive Eating // A Short History
