Archive - Aaron Calvin | Ways of Eating

Mac and Cheese with Chicken

I’ve decided my long dormant food newsletter is the perfect vehicle for some notes on disaster journalism, something that has been on my mind this…

Aug 1, 2023 •

December 2020

Cheesy Pepperjack Tornado Revisited

December forces reflection.

Dec 18, 2020 •

June 2020

One of Des Moines’ greatest culinary centers is the parking lot of the Advanced Auto Parts off of University Avenue in the King Irving neighborhood…

Jun 26, 2020 •

May 2020

Cheesy Pepperjack Tornado

The view from a street in Des Moines’ Drake Neighborhood (2020)

May 9, 2020 •

February 2020

The Rice Bowl (Exterior) in Beaverdale, Des Moines (2019)

Feb 7, 2020 •

December 2018

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, Osservanza Master (ca.

Dec 14, 2018 •

November 2018

Bread, Richard Artschwager (1966)

Nov 26, 2018 •

Beef cheek tacos

It’s been one of this intense and strange week and since it’s the holidays, that can only mean that it’s swinging into an even stranger, more intense…

Nov 19, 2018 •

Brined pork chops with fennel

Cypriot Terracotta Pig Vessel (3rd-2nd Century BC)

Nov 11, 2018 •

October 2018

Lactation cookies

Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (1500)

Oct 14, 2018 •

Still from “Men seated around a table dip donuts in coffee cups and eat during the Donut Dunk...” (1946)

Oct 8, 2018 •

The last week of September hit like a bag of bricks slipping out of an unsecured pickup bed onto the windshield of an unsuspecting car in traffic.

Oct 1, 2018 •

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