October 21, 2019 Issue

My favorite sentences in this week’s issue:

1. And just because the cauliflower looks fantastic on Instagram—its cruciferous treetop fried until it appears to have been spray-painted gold, placed upon a pool of tahini dyed electric fuchsia with beet juice, and finished with forest-green chermoula and jewels of dried apricot—doesn’t mean it’s not absolutely delicious. - Hannah Goldfield, “Tables For Two: Miss Ada / Golda”

2. Masterpieces dulled by overfamiliarity in an account that had become as rote as a college textbook spring to second lives by being repositioned. - Peter Schjeldahl, “Rehab”