Your junk food preference is probably not an addiction
At Table Matters last week, I wrote about complicated relationships to the simple pleasures of junk food, arguing that the way we so often frame these foods as “addictive” erases […]
Category Archives: Figurative Language
Brain Food, or why the mind is like a soufflé
When I first began to study the relationship between food and the imagination, I couldn’t help but notice how many idioms of thinking, reading, and learning use the language of […]
Business Digest
My press has been trying to negotiate a contract with an e-book behemoth that shall not be named. This company is notoriously difficult to work with and has an absurdly […]
I’m Starved for You by Margaret Atwood
Slow as usual to catch up with the spirit of the times, I still haven’t quite gotten the hang of Twitter. I’m a seasoned haikuist but 140 characters is a […]
Bread, Milk, and Eggs
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 […]
