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Category Archives: Novels

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

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

Search Term Sampler: Food of the future

August 29, 2014by Sara Davis 4 Comments

Some bloggers love looking at and posting about the strange poetry of search terms that bring internet searchers to our sites. It’s satisfying to see how visible we are in […]

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Disgust, Food Distribution and Resources, Industrial/Processed Food, Literature, Novels, Search Term Sampler

Lunches and Dinners in Wives and Daughters

May 24, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

I’ve been on an Elizabeth Gaskell kick this spring: once I’d fallen in love with North & South, I downloaded everything else I could find. Food often functions to convey […]

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Manners, Meals, Novels

Link Buffet: Cooking the Books

March 12, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Dinah Fried is shortly releasing a book called Fictitious Dishes, which features photographs of meals she has styled after notable meals from literary classics: a pretty tea set from Alice […]

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Cooking, Link Buffet, Literature, Novels, Photography

Eating, enjoyment, and The Middlesteins

February 7, 2013by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins has been making a bit of a splash in the book business, not least because one of its main characters is morbidly obese. Though I suspect (perhaps with premature […]

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Body, Disgust, Family, Health, Literature, Novels, Senses

What would James Bond eat?

December 21, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Eggs, according to Elizabeth Hale, whose article in Winter Gastronomica describes a multitude of egg dishes enjoyed by the agent in Ian Fleming’s series. Apparently Bond eats eggs in every one […]

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Body, Film, Gender, Novels

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

Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body

November 17, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

In  A Moveable Feast, the chapter “Birth of a New School” begins with Hemingway-as-narrator evoking the coolness and the cleanness of a café early in the morning, a seemingly pure […]

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Body, Food in the City, Gender, Health, Language, Literature, Novels

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