The philosopher Roland Barthes makes a distinction between eating, the act of putting a material into your body, and consuming, which involves the ideas about what your food is. To Barthes, food itself is an institution: an assemblage of physical properties, social aspects, images, dreams, and values; eating is “a behavior that develops beyond its …
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Edited For Clarity by Shira and Al Our class took a field trip to Ohio City to visit bars and restaurants in the Near West Side neighborhood, controversially rebranded and redeveloped as Hingetown in recent years. Our first stop was Verbena Free Spirited Shoppe, a nonalcoholic bar and retail shop opened by Molly Cheraso in …
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“You get up when the world is warm, or at least, when it is not so cold. You are, therefore, able to prolong your Saturday nights.” Guy Beringer, 1895, Inventor of Brunch Brunch is an illusion of the good life. It is fun; it is social; it is glamorous in one way or another. In …
