July 28, 2010
pocket food.
by hasalyn
This blog post is an ode to my favorite food group : THE POCKET. Everybody (or everybody worth knowing) loves pockets. IMHO, they are the most worldly food in the world. For evidence of this, please see Article 1. Thank you.
As this is a design/art/etc. blog and not a cooking blog – I wanted to take a moment to appreciate the figure and shape of pocket food. Please note the flaky, bready, pie crusty, food fabrics that enfold the hearty, veggie, meaty innards. Like a coat of crisco, the shell of a pocket food insulates the central ingredients. I liken it to the food equivalent of opening a present. Brilliant.
In closing, it is also worth mentioning that Pockets are well known in literary culture: In Chaucer’s 14th century work The Canterbury Tales there are two references to Pocket Food (Pasties). First, “All of pasties be the walls of flesh, of fish, and rich meat.” and second,“pouches of dough that were small and portable rather than their next of kin, pot pies, which were very large and stayed on the table.”
This is art.
I love food you can take with you, requires no plates, no forks and no cleanup. Yum.
You got that right, Jer Bear. That’s what I’m talking about.
I like that America is represented by the Hotpocket (Tm) in the pockets of the world wheel. Forget about all that traditional, homemade bullshit.
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