eat with your ears is a monthly newsletter devoted the food eaten and music heard in one month of michael thorson’s life. it’s rooted in food eaten and music heard in a month, but diverges into countless obsessions from poetry, to physics, to arboriculture (love them trees), to chinese tea cultivars. it’s not clear how anything in this newsletter—or in my life—is connected… but this is my attempt to draw lines between the far reaching corners.
let’s think of eat with your ears as a digital dinner table. you have no clue who the other guests at the table are, but someone is going to serve your inbox a hot, steaming, delectable plate of recipes, sounds, and images every month. eat with your ears believes that the best company is formed during the pleasure of sharing a meal. unfortunately, there isn’t a table big enough to fit all the people i love, so an e-meal will need to do… get it?! like email? but food…?
eat with your ears newsletter is a table of strangers and strange ideas linked together through quality food and music. thank’s for joining me at dinner.
eat with your ears courses [loose content summary]
what’s cooking?
devoted to foods i ate this month that i wish i shared with all of you. the what’s cooking column simulates a meal across space and time using visual / textual representations of food that YOU can recreate in your own home. the future is now, i’m emailing you flavor [some assembly required]
the morning stew
[indie rock / r&b / chill out playlist]
always pair your morning brew with a little morning stew— a music station of songs for before the coffee hits. like my grandmother’s winter soup, these songs are full of surprises—who knows you’ll get but god knows you’ll be full as hell by the time it’s over.
there’s no “skip track” on the radio.
sauce.fm
[dance music / experimental / deejay mix]
sauce.fm is music for getting sucked into. it’s a DJ mix built for focus work, workouts, house work, or inner-work: it is rhythmic and hypnotic. sauce.fm can take all your attention or fade into the background depending on how you listen. it’s hard to figure out what the sauce is made of, but it’s full of flavor, layered, and well mixed — let’s get in it.
[no requests.]
at the table
food tastes better with friends—and friends taste better with a drink. this section is a love letter to people i love and the flavors that brought us together this month. i hope my hyperbolized dining stories inspire you to share food with someone you love.
pot luck radio
a community playlist from all the eat with your ears readers. add a few songs and check back in to discover what other readers are listening to. just like a potluck dinner has unspoken rules— potluck radio does too.
no one’s judging what you bring, but we’ll all know who brought the best dish by the time dinner is over. drop the best songs you’ve eaten this month.t!
leftovers
[you don’t need this]
the leftovers section is designed to fill up whatever room you have left in your brain after a multi-course email e-meal. honestly, it probably won’t be the substance you need—or even want..? sometimes it’s sweet, sometimes it’s bitter, but it’s always some back-corner-of-the-refrigerator ideas from michael’s mind. no food-for-thought goes to waste in this house even if it truly should be in the garbage can.