Dear regular readers, Today the Lazy Scholar is experimenting with a new feature called Old News, in which current news items are paired with archival finds. Let me know if you like it! • The New York Times ran a taste-test of strawberry ice cream, only to find that the not-so-local, not-so-artisinal Häagen-Dazs variety beat [...]
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Old News: Ice Cream, Gay Marriage, Stamps!
Posted in african-americans, food, photography, radio, tagged farm security administration, gay marriage, ice cream, postal service, radio, stamps on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
California Dreaming
Posted in food, leisure, periodicals, poetry, tagged California, cooking, magazines, sunset magazine, vintage magazines on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear obsessive Netflix queue updaters, I went to San Francisco last week to do some research at a couple of non-digital archives—you know, the kind with actual, physical papers and books—but spent much of my time wondering what my life would be like on the west coast. Would I indulge in olive oil ice cream [...]
Back to the Land, Now and Then
Posted in commerce, environment, food, periodicals, technology, tagged Beekman Boys, environmentalist, farming, green movement, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Foods 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 [...]
Cal Coolidge’s Go Kart and Other Wonders of Western MA
Posted in food, photography on June 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
To anyone who’s ever read an academic monograph on the beach, The fiancé and I have relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts for the summer. For the moment, I’m still trying to find my bearings, which mostly means charting the routes between our apartment and every café in a two-mile radius. My friend Katie has also lent [...]
Good Bye, Leaven!
Posted in advertising, african-americans, food, holidays, Jews, religion, video on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the domestically-inclined, Break out your horseradish everybody! Passover is officially here, bringing with it gefilte fish, chocolate-covered matzo, brisket, and all the other healthy treats you’ve come to associate with the feast of the unleavened bread. In truth, perverse as it might sound, I do look forward to Passover every year, I suppose because [...]
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 [...]
Foxy Brown and Aunt Jemima, Exposed
Posted in advertising, cartoons, commercialism, food, visual culture, tagged aunt jemima, foxy brown on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
O pioneers of the digital frontier, Anyone who’s watched Spike Lee’s sometimes brilliant, sometimes obvious 2000 film Bamboozled, Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia might feel eerily familiar—the docile, self-sacrificing”mammy,” the lazy, stealing, and insatiable “coon” (on the left). Less familiar to some readers may be the sexually virile “Jezebel” stereotype, embodied, [...]
A Thanksgiving Feast (of Archives!)
Posted in books, cartoons, food, humor, visual culture on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear preemptive vacationers, I realize there’s been a lot of food in these dispatches lately, perhaps in subconscious anticipation of Thanksgiving this Thursday. I don’t know about you, but when I think about Thanksgiving (or Turkey Day, as I’ve heard it called), I think about sweet potatoes with marshmallows, fresh roasted turkey, grandmotherly love—and that’s [...]
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 [...]
Chickens and State Fairs
Posted in commerce, food, leisure, photography, tagged georgia, state fair 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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