Dead Bodies and Picky Eating

The Living Encounter The Dead

Casey Jo Graham Welmers | Pangyrus | 31st October 2025

Nursing student muses on the sterile way modern medicine treats dead bodies. It goes against centuries of human tradition. "Where was the ritual and care? I wanted anointing oils and purifying waters, incense and burning sage. Where were the murmured prayers, holy paints, burial shrouds? He should have been leaden down with silver or gold, sent off on a funeral pyre, entombed in marble" (2,500 words)

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The Kid Is Alright

Irina Dumitrescu | Serious Eats | 18th October 2025

Defence of "picky eating", by someone who refused to eat most foods until the age of twelve. This was especially fraught because her family lived in Ceaușescu-era Romania and food was hard to come by. After a teenage phase of eating only her own peculiar concoctions, she grew out of it. Now her son refuses all but the blandest foods. It's difficult not to pass on the same shame and the judgement (3,000 words)