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Category Archives: Rituals and Customs

Take a tea break

October 30, 2019by Sara Davis 5 Comments

[Content note: grief; anxiety symptoms] There’s a story I have about anxiety and self-care that I keep finding reasons to share with friends, so I think it’s time to put […]

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Coffee & Tea, Rituals and Customs, Social Anxieties

Food Music Playlist #21: National Cake Day

November 26, 2018by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Our friends at Foodimentary remind me that today is National Cake Day–a bold statement on a date so close to Thanksgiving, which is typically a carnival of pies. But I […]

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Dessert, Holidays, Music

Food Playlist #20: Trick or Treat!

October 28, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Happy Halloween! In honor of a celebration that, even more than Christmas or Valentine’s Day, is defined by an excess of sugar, this week’s playlist is inevitably all about candy. Commentary […]

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Dessert, Holidays, Music

Food Music Playlist #17: Birthday Cake

May 13, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

My fifth blogiversary isn’t the only milestone this month–this is also the year I finally become old enough to run for president. To celebrate, this month’s playlist features songs about […]

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Dessert, Music, Rituals and Customs

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

Link Buffet: Trend Alert

November 20, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

If you’ve been watching Master of None–I took a glimpse at one episode but I’m waiting for my television buddy to return–you might like this rundown of all the real-life eating places […]

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Link Buffet, Meals, Trends

Kant’s Dinner Party

November 12, 2015by Sara Davis 7 Comments

My familiarity with the work of Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is mostly centered on Critique of Judgment, in which he explores the roles beauty and aesthetic pleasure play in the life […]

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Aesthetics, Meals, Philosophy

Link Buffet: Globavore Dilemmas

August 12, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I’ve been teaching a friend how to make a few dishes (which is not at all the same as teaching a date how to cook — I’ve retired from that field). The prep time for […]

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Ethnicity, Link Buffet, Regional

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

Sound Bites: C.S. Lewis

July 27, 2015by Sara Davis 3 Comments

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”–C.S. Lewis This quote is from Surprised by Joy, an autobiographical account of how Lewis came to embrace theism in general and Christianity […]

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Rituals and Customs, Sound Bites

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