Inspired by the food articles I’m editing, written by cooks and gastronomes who really feel what they eat, who eat sensuously—I thought about how my own eating habits have changed over the years, influenced in no small part by who I was eating with, or rather, who was taking me out to eat.
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I got my first PowerBook when I was 19 and have gone through numerous laptops, iPods and iPhones which have either been stolen, destroyed by ants, dropped from a moving bus or knocked into bodies of water. Never got into the iPad craze, but I do own one which I was considering saving for my own baby daughter (her father is violently opposed to the idea, however) because many of the classic children’s books have been turned into beautiful interactive apps.
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Another Orwellian feature is Open Graph, which broadcasts the news stories you read, the last song you listened to, and the porn video you just downloaded. Like many others, I’m seriously considering deactivating my account, but the main thing keeping me on is that it is actually a useful networking tool for a magazine editor.
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October was going to be a big month for me — both of my babies were due: one my literal baby, the spawn of my loins, and the other is the magazine you should be holding in your hands, the …
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