Anne Petersen

2 days ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

First Off: You voted and Priya Krishna’s INDIAN-ISH is our summer pick for the Culture Study Cookbook Club —I’ll post a link to specific recipe sign-ups in the next week, but for now, this is your sign to buy, borrow, or reserve a copy from your local library. And if you want to see how this worked last time around, here’s the post on the easy connection of a cookbook club and here’s what it looked like when hundreds of people cooked from Tenderheart.

4 days ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

One thing I’ve learned from watching a fair amount of older stuff with kids: you cannot predict what they’re gonna like and dislike. Stuff you absolutely loved as a kid feels weird & old to them; stuff you’re sure won’t translate somehow delights. The kids of one of my friends here on the island are obsessed with Gilligan’s Island, and no it’s not becau…

6 days ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Helen Petersen |Anne Petersen

Did you miss the Culture Study Local Friendship Matchmaker? Or did you take a quick look and feel like there was no one near you and move on? Well, there are now 1500 posts asking for friendship connections from Malmö Sweden to Bentonville Arkansas and beyond. There’s hyper-local requests (walking distance on the Lower East Side) and “yes let’s drive to one another” in the wilds of Colorado.

1 week ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

Quickly: the intimitable (and recent Pulitizer Prize nominee) Gustavo Arellano came on to talk about SoCal Culture and it’s A DELIGHT. If you want to fight about how he defines Southern California, don’t fight me! I can’t defend San Diego, I’m from Idaho! But if you want to hear about making diaromas of missions out of sugar cubes, car culture, and crunchy fascists, this episode is absolutely for you.

1 week ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

This is the sort of piece I’d never be able to publish at a mainstream outlet — not because of its subject matter, but because it meanders from question to question without an unequivocal argument or a stern recommendation. It’s not an op-ed; it’s an invitation. What would it look like to hang out more in this curious, questioning space?