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Category Archives: Literature

Link Buffet: Rolls for initiative

December 28, 2020by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Consumer Culture, Link Buffet, Literature

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

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

Manners and modernity in I Capture the Castle

February 16, 2016by Sara Davis 3 Comments

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: […]

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Literature, Manners, Novels
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Link Buffet: Scenes of Eating

January 29, 2016by Sara Davis 4 Comments

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 […]

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Link Buffet, Literature, Performance, Uncategorized

Link Buffet: Expectations vs. Reality

October 1, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet, Poetry

The Dinners of Wolf Hall

August 10, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Meals, Novels, Television

Winter chestnuts and other literary comforts

February 6, 2015by Sara Davis 38 Comments

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 […]

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Dessert, Food in the City, Novels, Rituals and Customs, Senses

Quick Hit: Robespierre’s ode to tarts

October 8, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Dessert, Poetry

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