Ancient Grains Archive
My Favourite Cookbooks: Part One
Ancient Grains, Food
Sep 16, 2013
Previous installments of This Week in Reading can be found here. This one is just about cookbooks, and not from this past week, which is cheating. There will be two more installments.
This list makes no attempt at being exhaustive, and is not ranked: these are the cookbooks I use most in
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Revolution, Grrrl-Style (Eventually)
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 16, 2013
Two years ago I spent my summer reading a great history of the Riot Grrrl movement. The book, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Amazon | Indiebound) by Sara Marcus, chronicled the rise and short
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Where Are All The Monster Girls?
Ancient Grains, Movies
Sep 16, 2013
I think I was somewhere in the third (the third!) Iron Man movie when I finally wondered “Why am I here?”
If you asked me who my favorite Avenger was, I’d say “Tony Stark”. But I was completely unable to articulate why I liked him. When all was said and done, there ...Read More
The Saddest Endings of Hans Christian Andersen Stories
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 16, 2013
Hans Christian Andersen, it cannot be denied, was one sorry motherfucker. The first story he ever wrote was about a candle that did not feel appreciated, which is fairly representative of his output over the course of a lifetime. Charles Dickens almost certainly based the character
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Things That Are Popular in Canada Right Now
Ancient Grains, News
Sep 16, 2013
...mostly based on a week of happily reading The Globe and Mail, Macleans, and watching the ads on CBC.
1. Criticizing a truly stupid and unconstitutional attempt by Quebec to ban government workers from wearing religious symbols (tiny crucifixes? oui! hijab? non).
2. Serving
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The Rage of Jonathan Franzen
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 16, 2013
Jonathan Franzen is the angriest novelist in the world. He is the novelist who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis. He is
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Artists
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Sep 16, 2013
Never look uneducated at a Renaissance gathering again:
"If everything is highly-contrasted and sharp, sort of bluish, and everyone has gaunt bearded faces, it's El Greco."
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Happy Birthday, Lauren Bacall!
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Sep 16, 2013
In honour of the glorious Lauren Bacall's 89th birthday, let's revisit this perfect Vanity Fair profile from 2011:
The apartment is cavernous, on a high floor of the Dakota, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Huge windows overlook Central Park, 30 feet above the tree line, with the ...Read More