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Category Archives: Performance

Something’s rotten in Russian Doll

April 7, 2020by Sara Davis 2 Comments

My local CSA does home deliveries during this period of isolation, and although I am working from home I find myself with plenty of time to cook, so I ordered […]

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Meat, Parties and Banquets, Television

Link Buffet: sweet, sour, spicy

March 7, 2018by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Probably best tessellated rhubarb you’ll see today.Via @presentcorrect pic.twitter.com/CqSfkBGSyr — 78 Derngate (@78Derngate) February 6, 2018 I hope y’all can see the embedded tweets peppered throughout this post. I have […]

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Film, Food Distribution and Resources, Link Buffet

The morphing food dynamics of the Fable series

April 24, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Body, Performance, Playing with Food

A sampler of short food films

April 15, 2016by Sara Davis 4 Comments

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 […]

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Art, Film, Painting, Performance, Playing with Food
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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

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

Link Buffet: Made for TV

July 8, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet, Television

The destruction of tea and other political parties

June 30, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Coffee & Tea, Political Theater

The Presidential Cookie Bake-Off

June 9, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Dessert, Gender, Political Theater, Television

Pot-wallers and pot-boilers

June 2, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Consumer Culture, Cooking, Political Theater

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Sara Davis
Philadelphia, PA

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