Link Buffet: Rolls for initiative
Food links that grabbed my attention throughout this fall, in no particular order and with little comment. Dice Sets That Look Tasty Enough to Eat (But That Would Be a […]
Category Archives: Literature
Heat by H.D.
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 […]
Sound Bites: William Carlos Williams
“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 […]
Sound Bites: Li-Young Lee
“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 […]
Manners and modernity in I Capture the Castle
I recently finished I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, a 1949 novel that is littered with scenes of eating. The narrator Cassandra is the middle child of the eccentric Mortmain family: […]
Link Buffet: Scenes of Eating
Don’t forget that there is now a Tumblr companion to this blog, which features some rebloggable content from this site as well as many food-related .gifs, links, and graphics that […]
Link Buffet: Expectations vs. Reality
At Mother Jones, The Secret History of Black Chefs in America. I was particularly moved by this description of how the chefs’ accomplishments were undervalued, which is a pattern one […]
The Dinners of Wolf Hall
I’ve been watching Wolf Hall (again!) with a friend who recently picked up the novels. Both the books and the television adaptation are very dense with detail, so there’s always […]
Winter chestnuts and other literary comforts
I’ve been reading Lolly Willowes, a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner set at the turn of the 20th century. The story reminds me a lot of the pastoral 19th century novels […]
Quick Hit: Robespierre’s ode to tarts
I am reading A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel–24th on my #readwomen2014 shelf– and am still very early in the book, when the future leaders of the French […]
