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Category Archives: Fruit

Food Playlist #19: Apple songs + Magritte paintings

October 14, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

For the northern half of the western hemisphere, apples carry many meanings. Apples are simple, wholesome, pastoral pleasures; they are gifts for the teacher and ingredients for the stay-at-home mother. They are […]

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Fruit, Music, Painting

Heat by H.D.

July 18, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

  This morning was one of those heavy, humid mornings, hotter and sunnier than a morning has any right to be before 9 o’clock. It put me in mind of […]

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Fruit, Poetry

Link Buffet: Hints and Notes

August 3, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

A couple blog notes: I added a “Chronologies” page to my Bibliographies tab, and I’ll add more permanent timelines or histories as I come across them. One of the links […]

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Fruit, Link Buffet, Playing with Food

Food Music Playlist #9: Strawberry Jams

February 13, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

Strawberries, roses, and chocolate: the trifecta of Valentine’s Day foods. Roses and chocolate both have long histories of romantic and sexual connotations, so it’s not surprising that they remain popular […]

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Fruit, Holidays, Music

Ain’t Jokin (about watermelon, among other things)

December 10, 2014by Sara Davis 3 Comments

At the National Book Awards last month, author and ceremony host Daniel Handler soured the proceedings by making a racist joke at the expense of the author Jacqueline Woodson, whose […]

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Fruit, Photography, Race

Search Term Sampler: “Late August”

September 26, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

The term that led some anonymous seeker to my site: margaret atwood sex plums exploding That sounds exciting! I’ve definitely written about plums before, and Margaret Atwood does write some […]

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Disgust, Fruit, Mortality, Poetry, Search Term Sampler

Link Buffet: Food for the eyes

August 15, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I’m delighted to be participating in Deborah Hemming’s Women in the Kitchen series, which explores the different relationships specific women have with cooking and kitchen spaces. As you may have […]

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Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Gender, Link Buffet, Sexuality, Visual appeal and presentation

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

Odes to Plums

September 8, 2013by Sara Davis 6 Comments

“The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love, and savoring murmur full in the mouth and falling like fruit taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked […]

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Fruit, Memory, Mortality, Poetry

Scents and Sensibility: the story of fruit-scented razors

April 19, 2013by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Though I consider myself a conscientious consumer of many products, cosmetics are not among my more researched and careful purchases. When it’s time to buy new razors, for example, I […]

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Aromas and Odors, Consumer Culture, Fruit, Merchandise

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