The morphing food dynamics of the Fable series
As both a visual art and a narrative form, video games can utilize many of the same food themes that appear in film, literature, and art: food in games can invoke […]
Category Archives: Performance
A sampler of short food films
Just a soupçon of beautifully animated scenes of eating to start your weekend. I’m not sure when I first saw this clever stop-motion movie, but when it popped up on my […]
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 […]
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 […]
Link Buffet: Made for TV
Midcentury Menu is a blog that recipe-tests vintage dishes like meat loaves and meringue pies and posts the (often hilarious) results. The blogmistress recently teamed up with the food stylist […]
The destruction of tea and other political parties
Near the end of the eighteenth century, the British East India Company was one of the world’s biggest and richest business associations. Despite trade regulations, the company effectively held a monopoly on trade between […]
The Presidential Cookie Bake-Off
In 1992, the public voted for Hilary Clinton’s cookies. How this cookie election came about is a little convoluted. To oversimplify: Clinton’s successful career in law became fodder for political opponents who wished to […]
Pot-wallers and pot-boilers
Prior to the Reform Act of 1832, only a fraction of the population of England could vote for a Parliamentary representative, and the qualifications for enfranchisement varied greatly among boroughs. In […]
Link Buffet: Snow Day Entertainments
It’s finally starting to warm up in Philly, but there are still big gray piles of snow on the ground and enough chill in the wind to turn our faces […]
Why Pennsylvania Has State Stores
When I first moved from New Orleans to Philadelphia, I was more than a little stymied by the liquor laws. Coming from the South, I thought I understood bizarre alcohol […]
