Some might argue that all my days are food-centric, but today was particularly so in that Allie and I spent the evening tasting our way through Chapel Hill. We’ve been meaning to organize a joint grocery shopping trip for months, and we finally decided that tonight we would venture out to Trader Joe’s…but we got [...]

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Despite its title, tonight’s post is not an ode to the winged horse of Greek mythology fame. Rather, I wish to express my passion for a different kind of Pegasus:

This morning, the UPS man tapped on my door, just as I was about to sit down to a bowl of steaming cheese grits (more on [...]

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So today I was doing a little research for my upcoming paper about the social influences of eating (yes, I actually get some school-work done occasionally!), and I stumbled upon quite an interesting finding:
In a study done by Oakes and Slotterback (2004-2005), oatmeal eaters were perceived as “more intelligent, more responsible, and more moral” than [...]

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