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  • Barrel Logos and Buttermilk

    Barrel Logos and Buttermilk25

    Somewhere, in a conference room adorned with reclaimed barnwood paneling ordered in bulk from a supplier in Shanghai, a well-compensated executive must have declared: For the sake of relevance, we must redesign the Cracker Barrel logo. On and on this executive rambles about “modernity,” “Gen Z, “TikTok,” or whatever corporate buzzword is in fashion now.

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  • The Heresy of Lightweight Gastronomy

    The Heresy of Lightweight Gastronomy19

    Come, pupils. Let’s light a cigarette for Anthony Bourdain … or I suppose a Zyn will do in 2025. In a recent column for “The Free Press,” Suzy Weiss argues that the late chef Anthony Bourdain approached both himself and food with excessive seriousness. That his televised sojourns, marked by war zones and whiskey, were not voyages

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