Digest Magazine: Volume 4, Issue 4

Digest bills itself as a magazine for eaters and thinkers, asking how food shapes the way we live. It's certainly not written for people of lukewarm spirit. New York is the center of its universe, but there is some good food elsewhere.

Some issues have themes, some seem to bounce from unusual subject to unusual subject, happily ignoring any connection other than food. This issue starts from the premise of summer romance, and extrapolates into meditations on love in other forms, with articles about: 

• The love between a shellfish farm worker and her 90s teal second-hand cooler

• Puttanesca served to a wayward narrator by married men

• Food and momentary community in a Quebec psych ward.¬†

There are other, briefer articles and essays as well.

Paperback. Color photographs throughout.