Cilantro Takes Front Page, Shares With Giant Pastrami

Illustration by Stephen Webster New York Times Today’s New York Times Dining section has a striking front page. What is most striking to most I imagine is not the small cilantro article on the lower right, but the hyperbole of a pastrami sandwich that overwhelms the page. I’ve been thinking a lot about juxtaposition recently [...]

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Epicurean Existentialism

It’s just like me to make a flowchart on how to eat out, how to survive really, and go out of my way to ignore it. Like the Christian Existentialists who explain life’s troubling, irreconcilable paradoxes through the existence (and source) of the greatest irreconcilable paradox–Jesus (God/man? mortal/immortal?–anyone else confused? No? Congratulations–you’re smarter than me.)–sometimes [...]

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I love Netflix! (and cilantro)

If you’re anything like me (first of all, God bless you — it’s messy up there, huh?) there are few things as amazing as stumbling across a movie, a book, a philosophy, anything that sort of lays it all out there in a way that not only connects seemingly disparate kinds of things and thoughts, [...]

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