Tag Archives: Food

Family, Secrets, and Food

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2011

The focus on secrets in novels like Secrets of the Tsil Cafe and Fried Green Tomatoes led St. Mary’s student Nona Landis to look at the way that “secrets played out in my own family, especially with regard to recipes and dishes.” The following article is about her father’s “Seafood Bisque” and how it is “intimately but mysteriously connected to my family and to me.”

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A Delicious Poem for Your True Love

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2011

My wife was sitting at a stoplight a few years ago when she heard a National Public Radio story about a fifth taste, the other four being sweet, sour, bitter and salty.  Often we know it by the name given it by the Japanese, who first identified it early in the 20th century, although we […]

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Expressing Gratitude for Nature’s Feast

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2010

  Thanksgiving may be my favorite holiday because it involves holding a feast in the face of on-coming winter.  I read this as a sign that we believe the harvest bounty can carry us through the hard times. To accentuate the symbolism, I like my Thanksgivings to be cold and even a bit wet. Sir Gawain […]

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Books that Cook

By Robin Bates | Published: March 17, 2010

Jennifer Cognard-Black        As I am out of town this week, I am asking colleagues in the St. Mary’s English Department to contribute articles to my website.  Jennifer Cognard-Black teaches a course called “Books that Cook” that is so popular that it has a two-year waiting list of students who want to get into it.   You […]

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