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Tag Archives: new york times

Link Buffet: A Hot Mess

November 25, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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

Link Buffet: Making Up for Lost Time

January 22, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet

Link Buffet: Trend Alert

November 20, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet, Meals, Trends

Link Buffet: Wine, Women, and Tomme

November 13, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet: American dreams

October 16, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet, Playing with Food

Link Buffet: Border crossing

January 30, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Business, Dessert, Food Distribution and Resources, Link Buffet, Regional

Link Buffet: Fluff and stuff

September 5, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Dessert, Link Buffet, Manners, Race, Trends, Vegetable

Link Buffet: Art that matters and ironies in the fire

July 10, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

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 […]

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Dessert, Link Buffet, Playing with Food, Race, Trends

Link Buffet: Uncommon Economies

February 27, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

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 […]

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Class, Food Distribution and Resources, Link Buffet, Trends

Philosophy of a Philly Foodie

January 15, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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. […]

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Class, Consumer Culture, Ethics, Food Distribution and Resources, Food in the City, Trends

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