About the Site
Duck Pie is a blog exploring food, travel, and the experience of culture, from abandoned food courts to IKEA to revolving restaurants to cheeseburgers in Switzerland and Sweden. The site was founded in late 2013 by J.S. Graboyes, a writer and illustrator living in Washington, DC. Duck Pie has since been featured on popular websites, as detailed below, and attracted thousands of followers. Follow Duck Pie on Twitter (@TheDuckPie) and here on WordPress.
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Press
February 2014
- 99% Invisible – American Pompeii: Photos of the Abandoned Food Court at the White Flint Mall
- Acclaim Magazine (Matt Derody) – Photography: Dead Mall – The White Flint Food Court in Maryland
- Baltimore City Paper – The Essential File: 10 Things You Need to Know Today
- Brain Magazine – Malls Abandonnés
- Business Insider – Surreal, Beautiful Photos Of An Abandoned Mall’s Food Court
- BuzzFeed (Ryan Broderick) – This Is How Beautiful and Weird The Food Court Of An Abandoned Mall Can Look
- Curbed – After the Food Court Closes; Dingbat Watch; More!
- Eater – The Real Cost of Chocolate; ‘Dead Mall’ Food Court
- Freshly Pressed (WordPress) – Takeout Astrology and Zodiac Placemats
- Gawker (Rich Juzwiak) – I Can’t Stop Looking at This Dead Mall’s Abandoned Food Court and More Shots From Inside the Dead White Flint Mall
- Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen) – Assorted Links
- PolicyMic (Sarah Kaufman) – What These Haunting Viral Images of an Abandoned Food Court Really Mean for America
- Saveur – Weekend Reading: Milking Cows to Music, The Ghost of a Food Court Past, and More
- Washington Examiner (Michael Barone) – Why Indoor Shopping Malls Have Lost Their Cachet
- Yahoo! News – Dead Mall in Maryland an Eerie Reminder of a Bygone Era
March 2014
- Business Insider – I Found The Soul Of Switzerland In A McDonald’s McGruyère
July 2014
- Freshly Pressed (WordPress) – Cave Art of the Stockholm Metro
November 2014
- Freshly Pressed (WordPress) – New Mexico: Revisiting the Land of Enchantment
March 2015
- Freshly Pressed (WordPress) – A Brief Walk Through the Circles of Hell