What’s Next, Thai Me Up?

Gourmet never disappoints, and their alfresco tableaus grow more perplexing by the month. Some Enchanted Eating? I think they might just be fucking with me at this point.

August finds us in a woodland fantasy bereft of picnickers and composed of bric-a-brac that might’ve been dragged into a clearing by hoboes with an affinity for cool, cerulean-olive tones.

Tarnished silverware?  A patchwork leather ball? I suppose…but…wicker rockers and a plastic-paneled television, black and white, most likely? Now, I’m starting to get scared.

The feeling is damp, maybe a little dank. If this were the Northwest, which it doesn’t appear to be, logs would be covered in moss and slugs would be having a picnic of their own using toadstools as tables. The climate doesn’t stimulate my appetite at all—frankly, it freaks me out a little.

Perhaps I’m just taking the eerie setup too personally. It brings to mind the Enchanted Forest, a musty amusement park of my youth.

Comments

[ckc]

I subscribed to gourmet last month and I can't wait for the first one to come. I don't care about the recipes too much, I just want to laugh at the funny dining set up pictures, hee hee! That broken looking tv there in the back... haha, cracks me up!

[Krista]

ckc: I actually like their recipes, and the magazine too, really. But I always have the most fun with their alfresco photo shoots. Some issues they have more than one and then it's a tough choice.