A new book, “Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically,” is introduced by Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Truth Serum.”
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Eating Intentionally and Ethically
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Commencement à la Wordsworth
Tomorrow our students graduate and they will sing a school song that draws heavily on Wordsworth. The song also has an unexpected twist not intended by the author that always gets a laugh.
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The Making of a Literary Meal
A new anthology of “foodie lit” has recipes accompanying the poems, essays, and short stories.
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Reading and Eating – Interchangeable
There are many similarities between the act of reading and the act of eating. In literature about food, words are dishes to be savored
Mutton Mouths and Butter Bodies
Jennifer Cognard-Black notes that food, being perishable, presents museums and historians with a challenge. To study what and how people ate, we must look for related artifacts, including written recipes.
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Books that Cook
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 […]
