Brouilette sets the table (sorry) for his new food column.

‘Semesters Abroad’ are for wusses; try traveling to Southern France without a plan, without a credit card, and without any sense of responsibility.

Leslie Jamison plays wedding anthropologist and martyr.

Surf’s up for TNB’s Literary Experience and 5th birthday celebration in The Whale’s Vagina

Mat Zucker passes out at 30,000 feet. He’ll be fine.

Demoralizing, revolting and exhilarating scenes from a butcher shop in rural Italy.

Keith Dixon looks into his glass and finds it half-full, with wonderful notes of barnyard and pencil-lead.

Where James Bernard Frost confesses to Stephen Elliott-envy. And also, where he lounges around in a villa in France.

This is the first installment of what I hope will be a regular series on The Feed.  I’ve decided to call it “Vicarious America”—a collaboration with my friend, Timothy Murray, photographer/filmmaker and overall man of leisure.