About
Hello!
I’m Sarah Emily – that’s me eating lemon meringue pie – and welcome to my blog. I’m a South African historian who’s specialised in histories of childhood, food, and medicine.
This is not a food blog, but, rather, a blog about food – and, more specifically, about food, eating, and cooking. The world has enough recipes for red velvet cake floating around the internet. Here, I’m taking a closer look at the complex relationships between eating and identity; between cooking and politics; and between food and power.
I began this blog in February 2011 as a place to play with new ideas for a research project, but it has since developed in ways I hadn’t really expected. It’s wildly fun, though. (And some people have said lovely things about it too. Which is amazing.)
I post a selection of interesting food-related reading every Wednesday, and an essay on whatever takes my fancy on the weekend (this is a list of all the posts I’ve written here). I have an occasional Foodie Pseudery series too.
My food writing has appeared on Food24 and Eat Out (see here and here) in the Design Indaba Magazine, Crush, Gloss Magazine, and in Fire and Knives. If you would like to find out more about my real, live academic research, take a look here. I have also written for Feminists SA, Inside Higher Ed/The University of Venus, The Flick, SLiPNet, Review 31 (see here, here, and here) The Mammoth, and the Guardian (see here, here, and here).
Do please get in touch if you’ve any ideas or queries, or would just like to say hello. My email address is sarahemilyduff [at] gmail [dot] com, and you can find me on Twitter and Tumblr too.
This is my comments policy.
Sarah Emily
P.S. The title of this blog comes from DJ Opperman’s poem ‘Sproeireën’.
P.P.S. This blog was designed by my amazingly brilliant and talented sister.
Tangerine and Cinnamon by Sarah Duff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
You look very happy in that photo.
You should have seen the size of the breakfast.
Hi Sarah Emily, Stephanie Carvin passed on info to me about your blog and I believe info about my blog, fincafood, to you. So far I have only had the time to have a quick look over and I love what I have read so far. I am particularly amused by the foodie pseudery, if Ishow any inclination at all to go in that direction I do hope that you will yank me back from the brink. The street art in Woodstock looked very interesting too, I will be reading that properly later.
Nevenka x
Hello! And thanks so much for your comment. Stephanie passed on your blog to me, and I’ve so enjoyed it! And don’t worry about the pseuds – I only ever send up professional food writers and, anyway, your writing is really excellent.