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Category Archives: Advertising

Link Buffet: Throwback Thursday

February 26, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Everything on today’s link list is giving me nostalgia for the music, media, and fascination with wearable candy of the 80s and 90s. From Sociological Images, a brief history of how […]

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Advertising, Link Buffet, Merchandise, Television

Mad Men: “We can have the connection that we’re hungry for.”

June 2, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Last week on Mad Men‘s midseason finale, Peggy Olson got her chance to shine in a pitch that rivaled Don’s Season 1 carousel spiel: a moment when advertising seems to transcend marketing and become poetry, […]

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"Junk" food, Advertising, Social Anxieties, Television

The flight of the kiwi

March 14, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

Via Mashable, I’ve been enjoying these food maps by Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves. (They are also the duo behind a photo of a deep-fried iPad that astonished me in […]

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Advertising, Fruit, Photography, Regional

Carly, Cupcakes, and Thou–new sonnets by Nicole Steinberg

October 19, 2013by Sara Davis 2 Comments

I was excited to receive my copy of Nicole Steinberg’s new book of poetry in the mail today. As I’ve posted on Scribal Tattoo, Getting Lucky is a volume of […]

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Advertising, Dessert, Poetry, Trends

The Semiotics of Spam

August 18, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

I’ve been thinking a lot about spam. This blog remains a fairly quiet corner of the internet where I can happily hold forth about food and books without feeling too […]

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Advertising, Blog Notes, Language, Non-food
by Maja Cule

Link Buffet: Making a Scene

July 10, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Oddly, I have two arty links about lettuce and two for jellybeans this week. Fair and balanced reportage! I just saw this Requiem for a Lettuce at Edible Geography today: a […]

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Advertising, Art, Film, Link Buffet, Music

The Stream re-cap: junk food, marketing, and more

March 29, 2013by Sara Davis 2 Comments

On Thursday afternoon, I had the exciting opportunity to join Yazmin Khan, Yoni Freedhoff, and Hemi Weingarten on Google Hangout to talk to Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat. […]

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"Junk" food, Advertising, Blog Notes, Consumer Culture, Food Distribution and Resources, Health

A palette to appeal to the palate

January 30, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Colossal had some fun fruits-and-vegetables images up last week. These are by Florent Tanet. The linear arrangement of green tints and tones reminded me a little bit of those swatch […]

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Advertising, Fruit, Photography, Playing with Food, Visual appeal and presentation

Your junk food preference is probably not an addiction

January 17, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

  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 […]

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"Junk" food, Advertising, Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Language

The Environmental Attaché

December 16, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Yesterday there was a package waiting on my stairs. I was perplexed: I hadn’t ordered anything recently and wasn’t expecting any gifts. And then I opened it. . . . […]

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Advertising, Consumer Culture, Ethics, Merchandise

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