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Last week, Amanda Hess at Slate laid out the evolution of a situation truly distressing to our food-loving hearts: Over the last couple of years, it seems, the purple, elongated eggplant found on the emoji keyboard on smartphones “has risen to become America’s dominant phallic fruit.”

We here at The Salt decided we weren’t going to take this lying down. (Get your minds out of the gutter!) No, sir! We’re taking the eggplant back for its true intended purpose: cooking, and devouring.

To rescue the eggplant from the world of salacious sexters, we’ve turned to our emoji keyboards and conjured a few recipes to highlight the, ahem, culinary attributes of this late-summer fruit.

Cooking With Emoji: We’re Taking Eggplant Back From The Bros

Photo Credit: Unicode/Apple

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More in-progress diagrams

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Far From Silicon Valley, A Disruptive Startup Hub

In South Africa's townships, entrepreneurs lack the basic necessities of an office, such as electricity and water. Enter Hubspace. "Damn," one of them said on his first visit. "This is a cool space."

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the bread of the earth

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A website (see image below) that lets you build your own CYOA stories or play stories that others have made.

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A CYOA website. Focuses on text and the visual is an after thought. Would like to reverse this equation. 

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A choose your own adventure route diagram. 

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i think we’re out of ink

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have you tried turning it on and off again

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Have a nice weekend, Tumblr. 

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https://vimeo.com/120468825

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ART SUGAR NET MAGIC by Keith J. Varadi

“Take me to the place I love / Take me all the way” – Anthony Kiedis

Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Under The Bridge,” 1992

It’s 2013, going on 2014. Every artist, critic, or curator seems to have something to say about the endless ways in which the Internet and social media are affecting how artists, especially young artists, are now making art, seeing art, thinking about art, and disseminating art. Often, when reading a new article or essay, or going to a lecture or panel discussion directly or indirectly about or related to “Internet Art,” “Post-Internet Art,” or even the way in which abstract painting looks different on an Apple product than in a gallery, it is near impossible not to get bored or annoyed. Any critically engaged member of society understands the effect the Internet has had on the world; therefore, any critically engaged artist, curator, critic, dealer, or collector surely must understand the effect the Internet has had on the art world. Yet despite the consensus that the art world is shifting because of it, few have written or spoken about the matter in a very concise, direct, and expository manner.

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