Comments on: Bursting With Signifiers of Hipster Cool: A Cranky, Slightly Hilarious Review of the ‘Kinfolk Table’ Cookbook //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/15/bursting-with-signifiers-of-hipster-cool-a-cranky-slightly-hilarious-review-of-the-kinfolk-table-cookbook/ Faith and Family; Justice, Joy, Bread of Life Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 //wordpress.com/ By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/15/bursting-with-signifiers-of-hipster-cool-a-cranky-slightly-hilarious-review-of-the-kinfolk-table-cookbook/#comment-7334 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:31:56 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5082#comment-7334 Indeed.

Some years back there was a restaurant down there with an authentic Irish pub sort of feel. Good food, and prices still within the reach of plebeians like us. Then one day we drove by and saw that it had morphed into one of those ghastly monuments to minimalist cool. I warned Grandma that it was more than a mere change of decor, but she insisted on going anyway.

Upon entering our mere presence disrupted the carefully crafted feng shui. I suppose I blended about as well as Vinny Gambini, Esq. The decor was cold, minimalist hip, and I whispered to my mother that I didn’t think it was going to be a very good dining experience. She stubbornly insisted on staying, no doubt believing that the old pub would somehow magically reappear.

When the anorexic and affected waiter alighted at our table with a menu in which we could recognize nothing, she at last realized that it was time to go. Another decent place had been thoroughly Hamptonized.

]]> By: Rachel Marie Stone //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/15/bursting-with-signifiers-of-hipster-cool-a-cranky-slightly-hilarious-review-of-the-kinfolk-table-cookbook/#comment-7333 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 06:08:52 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5082#comment-7333 If we were b.s.ing about this book over beer, I would tell you it reminds me of those hideous stores in the Hamptons with vaguely fake-Buddhist names and claims to simplicity, with a single $700 dress draped just so over a perfect bamboo hanging rod in the window. So spiritual.

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]]> By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/15/bursting-with-signifiers-of-hipster-cool-a-cranky-slightly-hilarious-review-of-the-kinfolk-table-cookbook/#comment-7329 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:16:33 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5082#comment-7329 Come to think of it, when I was young we really did have friends from the night before sipping wine on the back porch in the morning. Straight from the bottle, often still in the paper bag. There was nothing hip about it.

]]> By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/15/bursting-with-signifiers-of-hipster-cool-a-cranky-slightly-hilarious-review-of-the-kinfolk-table-cookbook/#comment-7328 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:51:32 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5082#comment-7328 Brilliant. When “holier than thou” begins to merge with “hipper than thou” it is definitely time for the old barf bag, regardless of how the paper was sourced…

]]> By: Cara Strickland //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/15/bursting-with-signifiers-of-hipster-cool-a-cranky-slightly-hilarious-review-of-the-kinfolk-table-cookbook/#comment-7321 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:29:37 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5082#comment-7321 I loved this SO much. It sounds like an Anthropologie catalog :)

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