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Category Archives: Sound Bites

Sound Bites: William Carlos Williams

May 2, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

  “To be hungry is to be great”–William Carlos Williams “To be hungry is to be great” is the name of a poem from a collection called An Early Martyr and […]

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Food in the City, Poetry, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: Li-Young Lee

March 9, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

  “Every poem is like a potato latke.”–Li-Young Lee I’ve taken this quote somewhat out of context because I love the vivid image it conjures. I’ve only made latkes or […]

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Literature, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: C.S. Lewis

July 27, 2015by Sara Davis 3 Comments

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”–C.S. Lewis This quote is from Surprised by Joy, an autobiographical account of how Lewis came to embrace theism in general and Christianity […]

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Rituals and Customs, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: Ernest Hemingway

June 15, 2015by Sara Davis 3 Comments

“I have discovered that there is romance in food when romance has disappeared from everywhere else.”–Ernest Hemingway From 1920 to 1924, a young and relatively unknown Ernest Hemingway wrote for The […]

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Consumer Culture, Sound Bites

Quick hit: Seeing Picasso in a sausage

June 27, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

I recently came across this witticism in my reading: “A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”–A. P. Herbert The context is “Trott v. Tulip: […]

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Art, Class, Gender, Meat, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: Gertrude Stein

May 24, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

“If you enjoy it, you understand it.”–Gertrude Stein This quote is taken from an interview between Stein and a radio interviewer called William Lundell. This interview took place during Stein’s […]

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Poetry, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: Roland Barthes

February 3, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

“To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.”–Roland Barthes, from “Reading Brillat-Savarin” in The Rustle of […]

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Body, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: Virginia Woolf

November 1, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”—Virginia Woolf “The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes,” she adds wryly, […]

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Food Distribution and Resources, Gender, Sound Bites

Sound bites: Claude Levi-Strauss

October 7, 2013by Sara Davis 3 Comments

“Cooking is a language through which society unconsciously reveals its structure.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss In The Origin of Table Matters, Lévi-Strauss explains and elaborates on his use of a “culinary triangle” […]

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Cooking, Language, Sound Bites

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