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Two photos of banana sculptures by y_yamaden

One more about food, art, and playing with it

August 1, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

I just added another artist to the Gallery page: Judith G. Klausner. In her series From Scratch, Klausner adds tiny art to food or uses food to make tiny art: […]

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Art, Fruit, Playing with Food, Sculpture

Food Art Opposites

July 14, 2011by Sara Davis 1 Comment

At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the most popular books for children is called Art Museum Opposites.  This book juxtaposes some of the museum’s well-known pieces that illustrate […]

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Art, Blog Notes, Painting, Photography, Playing with Food, Sculpture

Promotional Lip Balm

July 6, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

This morning I realized my tube of coconut-shea butter-whatever lip balm had run low, so I grabbed another tube from the jumbled assortment of flavored, moisturizing, sun-screening lip balms I […]

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Advertising, Aromas and Odors, Artificial Flavors, Flavors, Merchandise

Funereal Foods

July 2, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

In the summer, we tend to reach for lighter fare.  Fruits, salads…. detective fiction?  On the surface, murder and mystery is an odd choice for beach reading.  On the other […]

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Mortality, Novels, Rituals and Customs

Bread, Milk, and Eggs

May 24, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

A friend of mine is a philosophy scholar who specializes in applying Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy to the tourism and travel industry.  I recently came across the following quote in one […]

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Bread, Dairy, Language, Philosophy

The grisly murder of fruit

May 22, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

While waiting for my bus in the morning, I noticed a number of city buses were wearing this advertisement on their sides: My websearch turned up a great many more variations of […]

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Advertising, Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Television, Violence

The Faces of Food

May 16, 2011by Sara Davis 1 Comment

Some time ago, an in-flight magazine presented me with the fanciful foodscapes of Carl Warner. Warner’s Food Landscapes are scenes built out of edible materials, mostly in their own shape: […]

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Anthropomorphism, Art, Painting, Photography, Playing with Food

Federico Garcia Lorca’s alimentary allusions

May 5, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

It’s difficult for me to write about Federico Garcia Lorca because I do not read Spanish and struggle with the reliability of translations. But I keep coming to this poetry […]

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Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Literature, Mortality, Poetry

She didn’t even bring her own carrots

May 2, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

I recently read The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer.  The central conflict of the book is a modern-day Lysistrata-inspired sex strike, but the novel investigates this occurence with a great deal […]

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Literature, Novels, Parties and Banquets, Sexuality, Social Anxieties, Vegetable

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Sara Davis
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