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Category Archives: Nutrition

Food Music Playlist #10: Got Milk?

March 23, 2015by Sara Davis 5 Comments

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 […]

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Beverages, Dairy, Music, Nutrition

Link Buffet: Kitchen, community, country

June 26, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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, […]

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Cooking, Cultural connotations, Food Distribution and Resources, Food in the City, Link Buffet, Nutrition, Regional

Link Buffet: Achievements Unlocked

May 24, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

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 […]

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Art, Body, Link Buffet, Nutrition, Playing with Food

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

Things you probably already knew about carob but I didn’t

June 4, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Dessert, Nutrition

Confessions of a kalevangelist

April 5, 2013by Sara Davis 4 Comments

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 […]

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"Junk" food, Class, Consumer Culture, Ethnicity, Family, Food in the City, Memory, Nutrition, Race, Regional, Vegetable

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

Review: Craving Earth, by Sera L. Young

January 24, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

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 […]

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Nutrition, Pica, Reviews

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