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no. 58: all dressed - by TW Lim - let them eat cake

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My friend Drew Austin recently wrote about how food might have replaced music as “the common thread that runs through everything interesting in a city like New York.” Music, in this narrative, has gone from being something that used to have a physical presence – records you had to hunt down, or bass lines emanating from particular doorways – to something ubiquitous, decoupled from place, and that is increasingly forced upon us.

My friend Drew Austin recently wrote about how food might have replaced music as “the common thread that runs through everything interesting in a city like New York.” Music, in this narrative, has gone from being something that used to have a physical presence – records you had to hunt down, or bass lines emanating from particular doorways – to something ubiquitous, decoupled from place, and that is increasingly forced upon us. Food is still a physical presence. You can’t eat over the internet, so food retains the power to make us haul our bodies to an actual place in order to put something…

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