Squid Ink
by Josh K-sky on Aug.13, 2009, under Uncategorized
But here inventiveness, confined to a fairy-land reality, must be applied only to garnishings, for the genteel tendency of the magazine precludes it from touching on the real problems concerning food (the real problem is not to have the idea of sticking cherries into a partridge, it is to have the partridge, that is to say, to pay for it).
–Roland Barthes, “Ornamental Cookery”, Mythologies