Here are a couple more scans from the book “Janet Fish: Paintings” by Vincent Katz. As you can see, Windex bottles were a whole lot sexier in 1972 than they are now (I do realize that, technically, Windex is not food). Jars of mustard pickles, on the other hand, haven’t seemed to change a bit.
As always, I have tried to include scans of paintings that are not widely available on the web. Please click here for my link to other Janet Fish paintings. Or, click this link for even more great work by Janet [... read more ...]
I purchased a copy of Ferran Adrià’s “A Day at elBulli” today, although I wondered if I even had any business doing so. After all, Catalonia’s famed elBulli restaurant is at the epicenter of the molecular gastronomy movement, and Adrià’s culinary techniques often employ chemicals and equipment that would be very difficult to turn up, even in the most well-stocked kitchen. Liquid nitrogen? Surgical tubing? Sous vide rigs? I consider myself pretty far ahead of the curve, especially when it comes to culinary gadgetry, but I certainly don’t have any of these items at home. And who [... read more ...]
I don’t know much about Jack Kleinberg, but I found these images while reminiscing over Gene’s Po-Boy the other day. From the date of his work, I assume that Kleinberg relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. I find it strangely fascinating that one of Kleinberg’s Los Angeles subjects is Tito’s Tacos, which was one of my guiltiest pleasures as an Angelino. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as though Kleinberg has an official site for his work, but he does have a gallery, if you click here.
Although Tito’s and Gene’s are nearly 2,000 miles apart, [... read more ...]
This old wall advertisement for Emerson’s Ginger-Mint Julep features great lettering, great patina, and the drink itself sounds delicious (some of these ads coincide with Prohibition, so this product was more of a soda than a cocktail, as far as I can tell). Isaac Edward Emerson was also the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer, which still exists today under a more benign formula, but which was chock full of bromide-based tranquilizers until 1975. Ah, the good old days…
The mural below is on Decatur Street, right next to the fire station, on the southeast edge of [... read more ...]
I’ve always admired the famous “Hot Dog” painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Even though the hot dog itself resembles a logo more than anything edible, I can appreciate the fact that Lichtenstein makes the hot dog appear to glisten and shine. In that sense, the painting is very appealing from a “theoretical taste” standpoint, as if the hot dog was freshly prepared and incredibly succulent. As cartoonish as it looks, it does seem delicious.
The colors of the painting are striking: ketchup red and mustard yellow. I wonder if this was largely a coincidence, or if [... read more ...]
