Sweet Treats: Cultural Reflections on Dessert
<p>My son is the type who would eat his entire bag of Halloween candy in one sitting, melted chocolate smearing an abstract insect shape on the web of his Spiderman costume.</p>
<p>His sweet tooth is a fang.</p>
<p>This math of “how many bites” that so many American parents must perform at the dinner table exists at a nutritional nexus. The act of eating connects us not only to material sustenance but to ourselves, to cultural ritual, to the earth, to our own mortality, to pleasure, and to histories and futures of eating.</p>
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