Photo: Self-portrait with stringy cheese

Not the most sophisticated of dinners, but grilled cheese and tomato soup is always comforting. It was extra good tonight because I made the sandwich with Kerrygold Irish Cheddar, bought at a great price from Trader Joe's. Hmm, that sounded suspiciously like ad copy. I just finished Molly O'Neill's essay on food porn, and now I'm all paranoid that I will become, as she puts it, "an arm of the food industry's marketing machine." More on that later. For now, I must force myself to sleep, because I fly to Denver early tomorrow.