Handmaking
When I prepare food, I usually get my hands dirty. Not just when kneading and patting dough into shapes, although it’s true that I am quicker to stick my hands […]
Category Archives: Playing with Food
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 […]
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: American dreams
Tis the season: we were just talking apple toddies last week, and this week I saw this wonderful profile of the woman who runs Laird & Company, who makes the […]
Link Buffet: How the sausage gets made
I’m still not over space lettuce, and now Modern Farmer just showed up to the astral agriculture party with some thoughts on how to fertilize potatoes on Mars. The science of […]
Link Buffet: Hints and Notes
A couple blog notes: I added a “Chronologies” page to my Bibliographies tab, and I’ll add more permanent timelines or histories as I come across them. One of the links […]
Link Buffet: Processing and progressing
Readers and friends! I’ve missed connecting with you on this platform. January has been an incredibly busy month for me, as I wrapped up my responsibilities at the university press […]
Link Buffet: The Season For Everything
I’ve been quietly adding new words to my Alimentary Lexicon since I announced it last year, but this recent addition is by far my favorite: deipnophobia, the fear of dinner […]
Link Buffet: Thanksgiving Links
Artist Hannah Rothstein plates traditional Thanksgiving dinners in the style of modern artists such as Mondrian: At NPR, the ever-sharp Linda Holmes has a delightful takedown of NYT’s list of Thanksgiving […]
Shop, drop, and sweetroll: scenes of eating in video games
If your interests strongly coincide with mine–that is, if you not only like food and history and narratives but you also like video games–then you might like to know that […]
