Convivium is a peer-reviewed online journal concerned with food representation in film, literature and the arts. This is an area dear to my heart — and to Peter’s: he’s the only writer I know who’s had an editor call him up and bawl him out because he’d written something too well. She was reading one of his manuscripts (I think it must have been Firebird) and she hit one of the juiciest of his killer “feast scenes” while still two hours away from her lunch… (I bet it was the description of the smetanyk that did it. Recipe follows.)
My favorite quote from one of this month’s articles (on the use of the chile pepper motif in art, craft and commerce), from an artist who enjoys painting peppers and chiles:
“Peppers are currently my favorite painting subjects. They are available, cheap, and will sit still for a long time and can be eaten afterward.”
