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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]