Media Consumption
‘Twin Peaks’ and a Damn Good (Vegan) Cherry Pie
“Diane, if you ever get up this way, that cherry pie is worth a stop.”
The second installment in “Media Consumption,” a series of essays and recipes that take culinary inspiration from our favorite movies, TV shows, songs, and books
You can walk backwards from countless great TV shows and end up hitting Twin Peaks — from Pretty Little Liars to Veronica Mars to Top of the Lake, such is the aesthetic and thematic influence of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s show. And today, that influence is also culinary. While I was very much alive when Twin Peaks aired on television in 1990, I was by no means the target audience for it — I was more absorbed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Fantasia, and my time would come many years later.
And now I adore this show. Twin Peaks was and remains a revelation of a series: endearing yet terrifying, soapy yet cinematic, surreal yet procedural. The character who stands where these points meet is FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, who comes to the town to investigate a shocking murder. Portrayed by Kyle McLachlan, Cooper…
