[Pic: Invasion of the Omega Fatty Acids 2015 52x42 cm paper collage, pencil, ink. Max Dingle] This edition of Compost has several articles I have come across in the last month that talk about the lack of diversity in food writing and dining. I haven’t put my usual commentary with them because I find the …
A tale of two picnics: a riff on Mary Douglas’ Deciphering a Meal
A tale of two picnics: A riff on Mary Douglas’ Deciphering a Meal. If she’d thought about it, Gertrude Stein might have written ‘A picnic is a picnic is a picnic’. But for the anthropologist Mary Douglas, a picnic, like a Tolstoyan family, is a picnic in its own way. In her 1972 article Deciphering …
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