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The morphing food dynamics of the Fable series

April 24, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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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Body, Performance, Playing with Food

Link Buffet: Hints and Notes

August 3, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Fruit, Link Buffet, Playing with Food

Search Term Sampler: Why do certain foods seem to be gendered?

April 16, 2015by Sara Davis 2 Comments

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 […]

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Dissertation Discards, Gender, Meat, Search Term Sampler, Vegetable

Shop, drop, and sweetroll: scenes of eating in video games

October 1, 2014by Sara Davis 10 Comments

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 […]

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Consumer Culture, Playing with Food

Food Music Playlist #3: Dancing Dishes

September 13, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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. […]

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Music, Playing with Food

The Basics

May 6, 2013by Sara Davis 5 Comments

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 […]

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Cooking, Gender, Reviews, Sexuality

Happy Valentine’s Day: Links and Love

February 13, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Blog Notes, Dessert, Disgust, Holidays
Detail of a gummy bear Chandelier by Kevin Champeny

Ars Gastronomica: Food, Art, and Pleasure

December 10, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

  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 […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Philosophy, Playing with Food, Senses

Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body

November 17, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

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 […]

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Body, Food in the City, Gender, Health, Language, Literature, Novels

Eating it Up: Food ads from the 80s and 90s that I still can’t forget

November 4, 2012by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Advertising, Consumer Culture, Dairy, Dessert

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