Appetizers | Joy of Writing One sweltering summer in New York City, a writing mentor of mine impressed upon me the importance of pre-writing.…
My first blood sausage was in Alsace, in a cellar restaurant, a sort of medieval cave with a warped stone floor and walls. Months…
https://vimeo.com/101939525 John Reed is the author of Snowball’s Chance (Roof Books / Melville House), and All The World’s A Grave: A New Play By…
The Shame of Health “Let’s just get rid of it. Let’s just take the whole thing out.” “I don’t want to remove any body…
I spent my first 9 months marinating in the spicy, Korean blood that circulated through my mother’s womb. She ate a lot of kimchee…
Last year I ate a ghost pepper. It was hot. I can’t really complain, because I knew it was a mistake at the…
Early summer before I turned nine, my father took me to the edge of our property in rural Washington State and positioned a…
I’ll be the first to admit it: I love foods that are ethically indefensible. I love fois gras. I will eat a full plate…
A collection of photos for National Hot Dog Day, of well, what do you think? Hot dogs. As a photo editor, I figured the…