Food Music Playlist #10: Got Milk?
I’ve been enjoying a reread of Barthes’ Mythologies, a collection of short semiotic studies of the foods, entertainments, and obsessions of mass culture. In “Wine and Milk,” Barthes picks up on an idea […]
Category Archives: Nutrition
Link Buffet: Kitchen, community, country
With food, it’s not just that the personal is political. How we eat, what we buy, and where we get it are deeply influenced by the circulation of food, money, […]
Link Buffet: Achievements Unlocked
It made me sad to see my blog so empty for the month of May while I had my hands full with some big work projects. I went into my […]
CSA Week 7: When Brassica attacks
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 […]
Things you probably already knew about carob but I didn’t
I am thirty-two years old. My first exposure to the word carob was courtesy of Dawn’s “healthy” brownies for the Babysitter’s Club. People have been eating it for millenia; people in […]
Confessions of a kalevangelist
I have a new piece up at Table Matters about class, cultural capital, and kale. It was an extremely personal piece for me to write–although I only briefly mention my […]
Quick Hit: Mayor buys healthy food with stamps, is very hungry
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 […]
Review: Craving Earth, by Sera L. Young
Young, Sera L. Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. This book is a data-rich study of instances […]
