Announcements

There is a lot going on at Emily Eats Food HQ. Rather than abandon the blog entirely, which is what I end to do when life gets busy enough that I find it necessary to deprioritize this particular writing practice, I’ve been trying instead to be adaptable, even flexible. I love blogging and want to continue to use this space as a chance to think through the days, and to contain them, and to orient them toward art. Alas, the days are filled to the brim lately, and while the matter of choosing between writing and sweeping the floors, writing and meeting a friend for a drink, writing and traveling on the subway to spend a real afternoon in an echoey weekday museum, is of great conceptual interest to me, the similar but essentially different matter of choosing between writing and paying rent, writing and maintaining one’s responsibilities to others, is less theoretical than it is pressing and obvious. Unfortunately the choice must be made!

All this to say, in lieu of a regular post, here are some links, news, bits, bobs, etc.:

• Review of Alicia Kennedy’s On Eating in Full Stop: I have been an Alicia Kennedy fan girl since 2020, when I discovered her writing about food reflected many of my own long-held loose ideas—that eating could be an act as indulgent as it was careful, that practicing morality in one’s individual choices did not preclude pleasure but could actually expand it. I hope I did this book justice!! Kennedy has been such an inspiration to me over the years, and I think she is such a singular and generous and essential figure in food media—I loved this book!

• Two poems in The Normal School: I had two new poems published!

• Kinda Nice: my perfect friends are opening a bar in Williamsburg! It is very inspiring to me to have friends who are really just doing things, and boy are they!! Grand opening is May 7th <3

• This Joan Semmel profile by Aaron Short in Hyperallergic, which includes this quote: “On one hand, you say, ‘What am I doing wrong?’ On the other hand, you say, ‘Fuck you. I’m good and you’re wrong. Who’s right? I don’t know. But it’s like, ‘This is who I am, this is what I do, and this is what I care about.’ So you just keep doing it.”

• Édouard Vuillard! Of course I went to the exhibit at Skarstedt Gallery like two days before it closed so cannot actually recommend it, but what I can recommend is this Garth Greenwell piece about a painting which is currently viewable in what I find to be a strangely bureaucratic wing of the Met.