Link Buffet: A Hot Mess
I am fond of the term “hot mess” to describe situations that have gone so far off the rails or fallen so short of expectations that the resulting debacle is either […]
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Link Buffet: Making Up for Lost Time
Whew! Now that the holiday rush is past, my most recent big writing deadline met, and my visit to my family concluded, I finally have time to catch up on […]
Link Buffet: Trend Alert
If you’ve been watching Master of None–I took a glimpse at one episode but I’m waiting for my television buddy to return–you might like this rundown of all the real-life eating places […]
Link Buffet: Wine, Women, and Tomme
At NPR: How Suffragists Used Cookbooks as a Recipe for Subversion: Perhaps the most fascinating of these cookbooks came from Pittsburgh in 1915. The Suffrage Cook Book was a sumptuous […]
Link Buffet: American dreams
Tis the season: we were just talking apple toddies last week, and this week I saw this wonderful profile of the woman who runs Laird & Company, who makes the […]
Link Buffet: Border crossing
Hurray! I finally got a chance to peruse my Winter issue of Render: Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly–or, more accurately, to read it cover to cover on my commute two […]
Link Buffet: Fluff and stuff
I just returned from an extended Labor Day weekend in my hometown, and I am fairly useless. My draft box contains half a dozen half-baked posts, but I won’t finish […]
Link Buffet: Art that matters and ironies in the fire
I once taught an intro to literature course themed around the blurry concepts of comedy and tragedy, in which we dedicated a few classes to teasing out the concepts of […]
Link Buffet: Uncommon Economies
These links have been languishing among my bookmarks for awhile–so, perhaps not timely, but of ongoing interest to me. This New York Times article about the shrinking middle class caught […]
Philosophy of a Philly Foodie
Let’s get some assumptions out of the way, shall we? You don’t have to eat expensively to eat healthy food. You don’t have to eat expensively to eat delicious food. […]
