Table & Foraging
Fabada, Vacuum-Sealed
A market in Gijón, a bag of beans, and how to cook Asturias anywhere
Newsletter
living abroad
Not Rejected. Just Not Inside.
What it feels like to live in the space between being accepted and actually belonging
Soundtrack
Paris, 1980. Nobody Knew What This Was. They Were Devo.
They expected chanson. They got Devo.
culture
What a Walk in Asturias Taught Me About Writing
Walks in Spain, vermouth bars, and the strange way ideas show up
Soundtrack
Oingo Boingo and the Art of Precise Weirdness
How “Private Life” turned paranoia, xylophones, and horn stabs into one of the strangest dance songs of 1982.
Soundtrack
The Night Bowie Turned Network Television Strange
Bowie, Klaus Nomi, and the Night SNL Went Fully Alien
Soundtrack
The Ghetto Brothers and the Sound of a Bronx That Refused to Collapse
How a gang from the South Bronx helped create the conditions for hip-hop.
Table & Foraging
The French Ate a Million Songbirds. But Not Lizards.
culinary tradition & endangered songbirds, and how people decide just what counts as food — with a recipe I hope to never make
Soundtrack
Os Mutantes and the Beautiful Chaos of Tropicália
Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, and the Beautiful Chaos of Tropicália
Soundtrack
The Psychedelic Universe of Gong
Cosmic gnomes, pirate radio from deep space, and the strangest psychedelic band of the 1970s.
Leaving the US
The Quiet Politics of Leaving America
On leaving the U.S., moving abroad, and discovering that daily life matters more than ideology.
Soundtrack
The Safety Dance Was Stranger Than I Thought
A Montreal synth-pop band, Quebec language politics, and a very strange trip to a Neolithic stone circle