The Life and Errors of Molly Young

The Life and Errors of Molly Young

"What I Eat in A Day"

An exploration of a strange genre: the food diary

Dec 20, 2023
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When it comes to certain categories of human, the meaning of food seems clear. For the athlete, food is fuel; for the gourmand, food is theater; for the dieter, food is a trial; for a baby, food is relief-of-hunger. What food should mean to the rest of us remains murky. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the “food diary”…

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