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Category Archives: Health

Link Buffet: Definitions

June 27, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

. . . legal and cultural. I’ve been meaning to post this forever, but in the Spring 2012 Dissent, Mark Engler offers a straightforward, informative overview of three movements toward ethical growing and […]

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Ethics, Food in the City, Health, Link Buffet, Political Theater, Science

CSA Week 7: When Brassica attacks

June 19, 2013by Sara Davis 2 Comments

It’s Brassica time, people. This week we got: cabbage, romaine, sugar snap peas, scallions, garlic scapes, cauliflower, kale, and kohlrabi. I bought asparagus and strawberries from the farmstand while they […]

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CSA, Health, Nutrition, What I'm Cooking

The Stream re-cap: junk food, marketing, and more

March 29, 2013by Sara Davis 2 Comments

On Thursday afternoon, I had the exciting opportunity to join Yazmin Khan, Yoni Freedhoff, and Hemi Weingarten on Google Hangout to talk to Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat. […]

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"Junk" food, Advertising, Blog Notes, Consumer Culture, Food Distribution and Resources, Health

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

Quick Hit: Mayor buys healthy food with stamps, is very hungry

December 7, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

You’re probably seeing all kinds of headlines about Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his participation in a challenge to see what it’s like to eat off of food stamps. But […]

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Class, Food Distribution and Resources, Health, Nutrition

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

Taste Test the 3rd

October 20, 2012by Sara Davis 1 Comment

Continuing with my periodic test-tasting in the name of science, I had a go at rating apple juice several weeks ago. This test was very straightforward: we sipped from plastic […]

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Beverages, Health, Non-food, Playing with Food, Science, Senses, Texture and mouthfeel, Visual appeal and presentation, Water

Inside Out: Medical Students Play With Food

October 15, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

When we epicureans and food culturists talk about food, we’re not really interested in talking about digestion. While other bodily mechanisms may be considered fascinating or elegant–the runner’s fine machine of bone […]

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Art, Body, Health, Photography, Playing with Food, Science

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