- Arroz Imperial and the Taste of Regret, written by Caroline Hatchett in the Bitter Southerner. Is there anything better than the narrative combination of memory, food story, and regional history? This snippet really does it for me: “I documented our meals on a blog: quinoa with beets and feta, panelle stacked with pesto and spinach, lemony carrot soup, butternut squash curry, roasted red pepper-wrapped halloumi. I posted poorly lit photos and earnest advice. I waited for comments, validation, from the ether.” As I set out to bring scientists from the past to life, this language feels both familiar and delicious.
- “How City Parks Came to Resemble What They Are Today” by Catherine McNeur is but one part of the History Now online magazine published by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. There is much to be said about making environmental history more accessible, and it’s all the more heartening to read about the making of city parks as clearly as McNeur writes.
- Speaking of our environment, Robyn Mowatt writing for Essence wants us to know that “Fast Fashion Isn’t Dying, It’s Getting Better at Marketing.” We should absolutely worry about the idea that companies can use the word sustainable, rebrand and yet remain as committed to the same destructive practices that initiated a rebrand in the first place. Fashion aside, the planet will remind us that our memory spans are just long enough to yearn for yesteryear, and just short enough for that to be all we’ll have.
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