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Category Archives: Dairy

Olivia Wilde knows what to do with butter.

Don’t bother with “Butter”

February 24, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I have a weakness for whimsical ensemble comedies that follow competitors in an offbeat subculture contest. I loved Best in Show, and though it’s been years since I saw it, I […]

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Dairy, Film, Regional, Sculpture
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Eating it Up: Food ads from the 80s and 90s that I still can’t forget

November 4, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

When I was writing my piece for Table Matters about the Grey Poupon ad campaigns, I kept remembering how much my family got a kick out of imitating the accents […]

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Advertising, Consumer Culture, Dairy, Dessert

I Scream: Little Baby’s gross advertising tactics

September 11, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

I meant to post about Little Baby’s creepy ice cream ad weeks ago, but it fell off my radar until someone dropped a .gif from it into an Email thread, […]

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Advertising, Dairy, Dessert, Disgust, Performance

Shakespearean Food Fight

August 5, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

My baker-friend and I attended the Shakespeare in Clark Park production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, a bawdy play of confidence games and mistaken identities featuring fan favorite Falstaff.  […]

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Dairy, Language, Performance, Playing with Food, Plays

Bread, Milk, and Eggs

May 24, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

A friend of mine is a philosophy scholar who specializes in applying Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy to the tourism and travel industry.  I recently came across the following quote in one […]

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Bread, Dairy, Figurative Language, Philosophy

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