Saturday, July 10, 2010

Imagined Therefore Limitless #8 - Eat, Drink, & Be Merry, What We Heard

Much merriment was had in the cozy confines of the Dot. Here's a little taste:

Dann Brown - chapter on "Accidents," sub-heading "Food Poisoning" from Cause of Death: a Writer's guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine by Keith D. Wilson, M.D. and "How to Boil and Egg (with hints on further uses for boiled water)" from Rising to the Occasion by Edith Hazard & Wallace Pinfold
Maithili Jha - "Johnny Appleseed was an American Dionysus" excerpt from The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan; Bottom quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream; and excerpt from "Your Radio" by 50 cent
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpt from Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks: Leonardo Da Vinci's Notes on Cookery and Table Etiquette by Leonardo da Vinci, Shelagh Routh, Jonathan Routh and excerpt from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
heather hughes - retelling of the Cherokee story of the origin of corn by Marylou Awiakta from Selu and excerpt on cannibalism in the House of Atreus from "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus
Dara Grabowska - "The Sixth Sense" by Gary Shteyngart from Eat, Memory, Great writers at the Table, A Collection of Essays from The NY Times edited by Amanda Hesser
Gina Heeren -