The morphing food dynamics of the Fable series
As both a visual art and a narrative form, video games can utilize many of the same food themes that appear in film, literature, and art: food in games can invoke […]
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Link Buffet: Hints and Notes
A couple blog notes: I added a “Chronologies” page to my Bibliographies tab, and I’ll add more permanent timelines or histories as I come across them. One of the links […]
Search Term Sampler: Why do certain foods seem to be gendered?
Some intrepid researcher was led to my site by Googling this phrase: gender connotations to food So glad you asked! I’ve been working on a chapter on that very topic. I […]
Shop, drop, and sweetroll: scenes of eating in video games
If your interests strongly coincide with mine–that is, if you not only like food and history and narratives but you also like video games–then you might like to know that […]
Food Music Playlist #3: Dancing Dishes
I finally got the boot off my left foot, and although I am still not terribly good at walking, I have many exciting plans to do so repeatedly in the future. […]
The Basics
In several relationships over the last few years, I’ve practiced the kitchen rule–like the campsite rule, except that the commitment is to leave my partners better cooks than they were when […]
Happy Valentine’s Day: Links and Love
Those delectable (disgusting) little treats are hand-sculpted human hearts, made from marzipan and doused in probably too much red food coloring. I made them with friends several years ago for […]
Ars Gastronomica: Food, Art, and Pleasure
Last week, I had a post up about the food, art, and aesthetic experience at Table Matters. (Are you reading Table Matters? You should be. Just last week alone […]
Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body
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 […]
Eating it Up: Food ads from the 80s and 90s that I still can’t forget
When I was writing my piece for Table Matters about the Grey Poupon ad campaigns, I kept remembering how much my family got a kick out of imitating the accents […]
