Food, Second Among the Arts

Art is meant to stir the senses, and neither a ballet not a bas relief can rival the sensation of cracking through the sweet glass of creme brulee to probe the embarrassing riches below. Not that pedigreed desserts with foreign names are the only convincing examples of food’s sensory superiority. There are those who prefer poetry over painting, but everyone would rather have a donut.

Food writer and longstanding aesthete Aaron Kagan composes our latest article “Food, Second Among the Arts” (click to read full text).