Photograph from orionoir on Flickr

Julian Dibbel opines on how blogs relate to the fantastical Wunderkammer, a metaphor that can also be applied to food blogs (and busy kitchen cupboards):

The genealogy of Web logs points not to the world of letters but to the early history of museums—to the “cabinet of wonders,” or Wunderkammer, that marked the scientific landscape of Renaissance modernity: a random collection of strange, compelling objects, typically compiled and owned by a learned, well-off gentleman. A set of ostrich feathers, a few rare shells, a South Pacific coral carving, a mummified mermaid—the Wunderkammer mingled fact and legend promiscuously...

[via The Last Appetite]