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The Anatomy of Not Going Home During Thanksgiving Break 2014

The Anatomy of Not Going Home During Thanksgiving Break 2014

Stage 1: Revel in the fact that you don’t have to deal with traveling for eight hours just to listen to your extended family have racist, sexist, or homophobic conversations about what’s happening in Ferguson, thereby avoiding the temptation to flinging mashed potatoes across the dinner table out of frustration and completely ruining the holiday. Stage 2: Scramble to appropriate food from the Deece as much as possible while it’s still open. Bring at least four different Tupperware containers and…

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Daily Feasts of Celebrated Artists

Daily Feasts of Celebrated Artists

In honor of Thanksgiving, I would like to share my research on five famous, beloved artists, and the regular feasts that fueled their work.   Erik Satie comments in his “A Day in the Life of a Musician” that “I can only eat white foods: eggs, sugar, scraped bones, fat from dead animals, veal, salt, coconuts, chicken cooked in white water, rice, turnips, things like pasta, white cheese, cotton salad and certain fish.” I am not sure what cotton salad…

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