Lisa Grimm

Plus, a letter can be friendly-ish, but also distant; it can command and liberate, or inspire and comfort, sometimes at once. Letters avoid the personality-less alternatives—of pure, anonymous instruction and pure, anodyne aspiration—toward which cookbooks might track, the way newsletters can provide relief from the worst tendencies of YouTube... See more

The internet certainly played its part. As we spend increasing hours buried in our computers the very fact that food can't be consumed virtually gives it a special resonance. You can, of course, post pictures of what you’re eating - people do that by the millions - but that’s no substitute for the scent of onions caramelizing in butter, the sound... See more

Today, instant gratification, profit and appearances are more desirable than substance, depth or intrinsic worth.

When content production and distribution is infinite, the important aspect is its primary function in crafting and proliferating culture*.* In other words, the value of content today comes primarily from its use in cultural production.

What's also interesting here is the mental model shift: People typically mint for a combination of patronage and profit—they want to support creators and the work they want to see more of in the world, and minting has traditionally been a way to do that, with provenance to prove it. However, there's also the desire to potentially profit from being... See more

With startups acting as determinants of the future, lack of diversity in entrepreneurship trickles downstream into lack of diversity in the broader economy and culture.

GenZ’s not into Traditional Recipes

What is tradition to a generation that has been born with access to everything all at once? GenZ is known to have the lowest of brand loyalty when compared against older generations, so it’s no surprise to see them reject what feels conventional, and treat ingredients in the same way they’ve broken the fashion... See more

Her cookbooks, in turn, offer others their own chance. Performance, after all, manages presence and absence with its is-and-is-not enactments. Recipe as script. My own favorite genre comparison for recipe collections, though, is not a script or a manual, and not the commonly invoked novel or history or memoir—though cookbooks bear affinity to all... See more

Trickle-down economics shifts money around within a roughly fixed pie. People in tech want to grow the pie using the only pie-growing mechanism that’s ever worked . And they’re not even asking for lower taxes, or any particular special treatment. They’re just asking not to be blocked .