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Category Archives: Cultural connotations

“Eating the Other”: bell hooks on ethnicity as spice

March 11, 2015by Sara Davis 4 Comments

Some time ago, Sociological Images posted this horrifyingly perfect example of how “postracial” discourse interprets racial diversity: As blog editor Lisa Wade wryly comments, “Just a teaspoon or less of diversity, please.” Misguided as it is, this ad […]

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Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Race, Spices and seasoning

The Secret Language of Yelp Reviews

February 20, 2015by Sara Davis 4 Comments

I recently picked up The Language of Food by Dan Jurafsky, which turned out to be an entirely enjoyable, accessible collection of essays about food nouns and adjectives. A little more than half […]

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Class, Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Food in the City, Language, Reviews

Pizzacore, poetry, and gender

September 17, 2014by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Yesterday, The Hairpin posted a lengthy but well-considered examination of “snackwave” by Rookie writers Hazel Cills and Gabrielle Noone. “Snackwave” is the authors’ own term for the pop culture and social media […]

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"Junk" food, Cultural connotations, Gender, Trends

Link Buffet: Kitchen, community, country

June 26, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

With food, it’s not just that the personal is political. How we eat, what we buy, and where we get it are deeply influenced by the circulation of food, money, […]

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Cooking, Cultural connotations, Food Distribution and Resources, Food in the City, Link Buffet, Nutrition, Regional

Aphrodisiacs of yore

February 5, 2014by Sara Davis 3 Comments

I’m skipping out for the rest of the week to attend the nuptials of two beautiful friends in the tropics, so I thought I’d leave you with some erotic plant trivia. […]

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Cultural connotations, Sexuality, Vegetable

The metaphors of mass consumerism

June 3, 2013by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Inequality by (interior) Design, a smart sociology blog you should be following if you aren’t already, included a shout-out to Janice Radway in a post describing the way books written […]

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Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Disgust, Language, Non-food, Poetry

Link Buffet: Thinking links

April 23, 2013by Sara Davis 5 Comments

At Tangerine and Cinnamon, a thoughtful food blog I have only just discovered, Sarah Duff ruminates about the problems of “authentic” regional food. What does authenticity mean when different families prepare regional […]

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Class, Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Link Buffet

One way of looking at “Foodies”

January 25, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Back when I managed book exhibits at scholarly conferences, I noted the frequency with which book-booth neighbors would pass the time by talking about good, sophisticated food options in a […]

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Class, Cultural connotations, Ethnicity, Food Distribution and Resources, Language, Reviews

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

Sweetrolls and soupe aux choux in Anna Karenina

November 26, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

The new Anna Karenina film is absolutely gorgeous–which anyone can plainly see from the trailer–but it is also quite sharp. I read the novel over the summer and was enthralled, […]

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Cultural connotations, Film, Gender, Literature, Novels, Regional, Sexuality

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