by Nicola | Dec 16, 2013
Don’t let its name fool you: in between shiny “phablets” and robot armies, Gizmodo still makes time for the ultimate old-school entertainment and educational device, the book. When Gizmodo’s new editor-in-chief (and my Venue collaborator),... by Nicola | Aug 5, 2013
Hot on the heels of my menu donation to the New York Public Library comes this intriguing news story about a team of ecologists using Hawaiian restaurant menus to reconstruct long-term changes in local marine populations. The menus provided the evidence needed to... by Nicola | Jul 15, 2013
I am somewhat astonished to find that I haven’t written about the New York Public Library’s amazing menu collection on Edible Geography before. IMAGE: A pizza delivery menu from Radisson Hotels, 1987. NYPL Menu Collection. NYPL Culinary Collections... by Nicola | Feb 26, 2012
Twitter is easily (and somewhat tediously) mocked as simply providing a forum for the publication of endless narcissistic minutiae. This argument is most commonly summed up by citing the breakfast example. As Steven Johnson put it, writing for Time in 2009: You hear... by Nicola | Nov 13, 2011
Provenance is a tricky issue. Over the past few years, the names of agricultural regions, villages, and even specific farms have proliferated on urban menus and shelf labels, providing the aspirational consumer with a shorthand guarantee of authenticity, taste, and,... by Nicola | Sep 14, 2011
My team of eleven brave Food Studies bloggers. I’m extremely pleased to announce that I’m editing a new series called Food Studies for the online environmental magazine Grist. Thanks to the superhuman efforts of Grist’s new food editor, Twilight...