Aaron Calvin | Ways of Eating

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December forces reflection. So in the spirit of this reflection, I thought I would round out a year in this long-neglected newsletter with a fourth…
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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…
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The view from a street in Des Moines’ Drake Neighborhood (2020) Part I: It Is What It Is Here’s a good what if? moment from the annals of my strange…
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The Rice Bowl (Exterior) in Beaverdale, Des Moines (2019) Walking into The Rice Bowl, nearly hidden among the businesses amassed together in the…
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Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, Osservanza Master (ca. 1435) Returning to New York in October was an exercise in attempting to manage a…
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Bread, Richard Artschwager (1966) A no-knead bread recipe is only a recipe in the sense that it exists as a set of instructions involving the…
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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…
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Cypriot Terracotta Pig Vessel (3rd-2nd Century BC) Taking off in the dark, the plane window reveals many small lights, like flames in the night. This is…
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Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (1500) There are few commonplace events which prove the malleability and the fragility of the human animal body…
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Still from “Men seated around a table dip donuts in coffee cups and eat during the Donut Dunk...” (1946) Upon first encountering Dunkin’ Donuts in my…
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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…
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There are few seasonal beverages so maligned and filled with meaning as the pumpkin spice latte. Since it’s popularization by Starbucks, it has become a…
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