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Back to the Land, Now and Then

Posted in commerce, environment, food, periodicals, technology, tagged , , , , , on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

To the chronically tired, While I may be lazy in my scholarship, let it never be said I’m a stranger to physical labor. On Monday, I started volunteering one morning a week at a local farm here in Northampton. As promised, the work was not glamorous—weeding, weeding, and more weeding—but it was surprisingly satisfying. As [...]

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Thrills of the Open Road

Posted in advertising, cars, commerce, leisure, tagged on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

To the spring-attired, I never imagined myself an auto enthusiast. In fact, for years, I had nightmares about losing control of my car on the parkway, and wasn’t sure if I should interpret them as a Final Destination-ish prophecy of my own demise or a mere anxiety dream. Yet after driving 3000 miles through Southwestern [...]

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Better Living Through Canned Meats and Custard

Posted in books, commerce, food on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

To the seasonally-affective disordered, The spring semester is officially under way, and I’ve started TFing a new class: Joyce Chaplin’s wonderful lecture on American food history. We’re still strolling around the colonial period, though for today’s post, I’m going to fast-forward to the twentieth century to point you towards the rewarding Szathmary Recipe Pamphlet Collection [...]

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The Wonders of Coffee

Posted in advertising, commerce, commercialism, domesticity, economics, food, leisure, shopping, video, visual culture on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

To students seldom awake before ten, Like many scholars, I’ve relied on coffee as a lifeline for most of my academic career. By senior year of high school, I was already bringing a plastic mug full of instant Maxwell House (terrible, I know) to class. In college, I even considered footnoting the local convenience store [...]

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Chickens and State Fairs

Posted in commerce, food, leisure, photography, tagged , on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear lethargic readers, It’s one of the regrets of my life thus far that I’ve never been to a county or state fair—to my knowledge, there weren’t many (or any) on Long Island where I grew up. Thanks to the Digital Library of Georgia, however, I can at least enjoy the “idea” of the state [...]

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The Dangers of Sugar and the Joys of Steak

Posted in advertising, commerce, film, food, visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear snooze-button specialists, Eating may be one of the more delightful ways to delay work. People who don’t spend their lives in libraries and classrooms for a living might, in fact, be surprised at how many lunches, teatimes, coffee breaks, iced coffee breaks, brownie breaks, suppers, dinners, desserts, and happy hours you can fit into [...]

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