Shakespeare wrote "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but of course the bard wrote a lot of things that contradict each other, and he knew better than anyone that what we call something can change it. Say the "evaporated cane juice" in a cracker my husband and I just ate, which I pointed out is sugar. Or various ways of saying doughnuts, which are the subject of paintings by Emily Eveleth
http://www.emilyeveleth.com/ in a wonderful show called "Luscious" now at The Smith College...
Published on August 08, 2010 06:48