Food Archives - Audrey Michelle Mast

Food ➤ January 11, 2026

Cottage Cheese’s Comeback: A Case Study In Food Culture

There are certain foods that carry emotional baggage, and cottage cheese is one of them. It is not neutral the way toast is neutral, or the way a respectable banana minds its own business. Cottage...

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Art ➤ May 2, 2026

In Which I Cast On and Immediately Lose the Will to Live: Swatching, ADHD, and the Bureaucracy of Knitting

The yarn is beautiful. I want to be clear about this. The yarn is a gorgeous fingering-weight merino in a colorway called something like “Fjord Dusk” or “Heathered Mythology,” and it arrived in the mail...

Culture ➤ May 2, 2026

Let us now Praise Japanese Pens

I didn’t intend to become a person who has opinions about pens. I want to be clear about that. It happened incrementally — the way most conversions happen, I suppose — not in a flash...

Fashion ➤ April 2, 2026

Big Feelings About Big Clothes: On the Oversized Trend and My Ongoing Internal Negotiations

There is a silhouette currently stalking the runways, the street style blogs, and every fashion-adjacent Instagram account I follow, and it goes like this: billowing, voluminous, deliberately ungainly, a jacket the size of a small...