"Neurogastronomy"

"Baum + Whiteman sees a big future for this mouthful of a concept, which it describes as 'how our senses cumulatively react to food'.”

Above the mandala on the floor, is the sky.

National Museum of the American Indian,
Washington, D.C., 12/13/14,
FujiFilm X100S, B&W, 180° panorama mode
(click image for full-screen).

"... the essence of the thing ..."

"To become some other thing, you have to not be that thing in the first place, and, if you are that thing, then it is hard for you to really believe that anyone else can become it, since the essence of the thing is having been it all along."

-from The View from a Bridge by Adam Gopnik in this week's issue of the New Yorker.