I got bored of antique toast racks, so today you got a fork instead.
This week, let’s use this space to deliberately draw your attention to just a few pieces I would be so sad for you to have missed.
1. Heather Seggel, “A Christmas Story”
Heather writes so movingly, and with such humor, and her clear-eyed perspective on the role of poverty in her life is something I could happily publish every day.
2. Evette Dionne, “The Chickenhead in Me: Hip-Hop Feminism”
I wish this was nine times longer.
3. Laura Passin, “Sir David Attenborough, My Secular Saint”
Laura is another repeat author for us who I think is just a stellar, stellar talent, and this one brought me to tears.
4. Claire Barliant, “An Interview With Louise Lasser”
I liked how Claire let Lasser speak for herself. She’s a complicated person, and Barliant lets that land without a bunch of commentary.
5. Jamey Hatley, “Praisesong for the Postcard”
Short, perfect.
The curse words one was pretty stellar, too.
The curse words one was pretty stellar, too.
I have a probably foolish question about the toast racks: When I make toast, I butter it and eat it. Was I supposed to display it for posterity first? Have I literally been eating it wrong this whole time? Or is it for when you have a lot of people over with the express purpose of serving toast? Do people do that? Because I would go to that party.
I do believe it is for the purpose of serving toast at the table, either your 6 children or your guests who are staying the weekend at your manor house. Nobody in a hunting party wants the steam-soggy middle piece if toast from the stack.
I never really watched Fraiser, but the one bit of it that stayed with me forever from an episode I half watched, was one of the characters calling the steam-soggyness of toast, ‘The Toast Sweat’. Soggy toast grossed me out more than normal after that.
Thank you, this helps!
I have a probably foolish question about the toast racks: When I make toast, I butter it and eat it. Was I supposed to display it for posterity first? Have I literally been eating it wrong this whole time? Or is it for when you have a lot of people over with the express purpose of serving toast? Do people do that? Because I would go to that party.
Thank you, this helps!