On the consolation of women’s food writing

The food internet is a perfect illustration of the too-much-ness of life online (consider two words that loom over our online experience: “feed” and “slop”). Nina Renata Aron, author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, offers an antidote: a turn toward tactile dailiness and the analog pleasures that require our close attention.

“When I want to feel unassailed, cozy, nourished, inspired, I curl up with a book. And I discover over and over again that the food writing of yore offers a pleasing corrective to this bizarre moment we’re living in, this capitalist overabundance, this punishing gig economy. I crave a return to an easeful, funny, everyday, human-scale relationship to food. And over and over, I find it in 20th-century women’s food writing.”

Featuring the writing of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Patience Gray, Laurie Colwin, Marcella Hazan and MFK Fisher, Nina Renata Aron presents a gimlet-eyed critique of the sometimes unsavory 21st century digital foodscape, while considering how 20th century food writers, all women, saved her from diet culture and reshaped her relationship to labor and time.

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32-page artist publication, printed on French Paper with soy-based Risograph ink (orchid, flat gold, and black), saddles stitched binding, measures 5.25 x 8”.