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Category: Codebreaking

Connect the dots, solve the riddles, uncover the conspiracies.

RESURRECTION CANARY BLUE

By: Whitney Dunlap-Fowler

“Much like Carrie, I’d lost someone significant, and now I was emerging anew.”

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MARRAKECH MINT

By: Natasha Delliston

“Nothing is not lifted by this green.”

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SKIN-DEEP ORANGE

By: Maciej Biedziński

“I literally became orange — which gave me terrific confidence.”

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KYOTO MOSS

By: Audrey Bartis

“I wanted to bottle this place to drink it…”

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FALUKORV RED

By: Martha Arango

I’ve become “snowed-in” by Swedish culture.

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COLOR CODEX (INTRO)

By: Joshua Glenn

Introducing a series by semioticians from around the world…

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X IS FOR XO SAUCE

By: Tom Nealon

The delicious end result of the condiment expression of “greed is good.”

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W IS FOR WHITE GRAVY

By: Tom Nealon

Don’t question the vision; roux and whisk and be well.

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V IS FOR VEGEMITE

By: Tom Nealon

Like eating a beef bouillon cube, in a (mostly) good way.

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U IS FOR UMEBOSHI

By: Tom Nealon

A certain amount of mythology has built up around umeboshi’s properties…

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T IS FOR TZATZIKI

By: Tom Nealon

You know what cucumberless tzatziki is going to taste like…

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S IS FOR SAMBAL

By: Tom Nealon

When you want all of it, all at once, all the time.

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R IS FOR RED-EYE GRAVY

By: Tom Nealon

Does it seem to stare at you, your gravy?

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Q IS FOR QIZHA

By: Tom Nealon

The amygdala files it under “not food, scary.”

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P IS FOR PIKLIZ

By: Tom Nealon

Make some pikliz, put it on your pylsa…

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