Hillary carlip's "a la cart"
"Shopping lists are the new memoir", says Hillary Carlip, a performance artist. They offer a glimpse of the needs and desires of strangers. "Everyone wants to know what everyone else is eating, drinking, wearing," she explains to Deborah Stoll. This is how she came to write "A la Cart" ...
By Deborah Stoll
Woody writes his grocery list on the inside of a matchbook cover: "Coors, Oreos". He is ready "to meet just one special lady with NO KIDS and NO BANKRUPTICES."
Anush, stoic in her leopard-print caftan, is at her wit's end with her mother-in-law's demanding shopping list: "A fairly good size of veal shanks IF tender (lamb shanks IF not veal). Gata IF soft not hard. Bulk bargain sour cherries IF small ripe and firm."
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