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What I’m Cooking: March

March 8, 2018by Sara Davis Leave a comment

What I’m drinking When the first nor’easter came through last Friday, I longed for a cup of hot spiced wine to warm my ice-flecked face after I got home from […]

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Link Buffet: sweet, sour, spicy

March 7, 2018by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Probably best tessellated rhubarb you’ll see today.Via @presentcorrect pic.twitter.com/CqSfkBGSyr — 78 Derngate (@78Derngate) February 6, 2018 I hope y’all can see the embedded tweets peppered throughout this post. I have […]

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Food Distribution and Resources, Film, Link Buffet

Link Buffet: Why are you like this?

March 7, 2017by Sara Davis 1 Comment

I was so interested to readRachel Lauden’s take on the term “foodways,” a word frequently used in anthropological and sociological food studies to mean both food custom and culture. I have […]

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Link Buffet

What I’m cooking: February

March 4, 2017by Sara Davis Leave a comment

It still feels like February outside so I’m squeaking in with some February roundups here and on my book blog. What I’m cooking: I’ve long appreciated this simple chickpea stew […]

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What I'm Cooking

Link Buffet: Personal and Political

February 14, 2017by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I have trouble articulating why I’m so attracted to Sith imagery lately. Obviously I don’t identify or even sympathize with the Empire. But as I sit here in my cute […]

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Link Buffet

What I’m Cooking: January

January 25, 2017by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Well, I guess it is time to get back to work. I’ve been experiencing the same malaise that many of my peers have felt since November, and feeling sort of […]

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Blog Notes, What I'm Cooking

Link Buffet: A Hot Mess

November 25, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I am fond of the term “hot mess” to describe situations that have gone so far off the rails or fallen so short of expectations that the resulting debacle is either […]

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Link Buffet

What I’m cooking: November

November 2, 2016by Sara Davis 3 Comments

What I’ve cooked recently: I threw myself a party and checked off most of my autumnal cooking wish list. I mulled two liters of wine. I boiled up all my ginger […]

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What I'm Cooking

Food Playlist #20: Trick or Treat!

October 28, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Happy Halloween! In honor of a celebration that, even more than Christmas or Valentine’s Day, is defined by an excess of sugar, this week’s playlist is inevitably all about candy. Commentary […]

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Dessert, Holidays, Music

Link Buffet: Recommendations

October 17, 2016by Sara Davis 2 Comments

If you’re in a food rut: Brain Pickings, Salvador Dali’s Rare, Erotic Vintage Cookbook If you’re hungry for eye candy: I enjoy the hyperrealistic food paintings posted by Italian artist Marcello […]

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