Category: Taste
We’re excited that you’ve joined the conversation! At HMU, we want to continue the great authors’ conversations in a contemporary context, and this blog will help us do that. We look back to Aristotle and the early philosophers who used reason and discourse to gain wisdom and now we endeavor to do the same every day.
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September 22, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For me, Aristotle’s Poetics is less about advice for the writer than it is about defining structures. By that, I mean that Aristotle wants us to understand how to produce good art that expresses an important aspect of human nature. He goes so …
Before HGTV, before Ty Pennington or Joanna and Chip Gaines, before This Old House even, Charlotte Brontë wrote about the dullness of life in orphanages and the solitary life of a governess in Jane Eyre. As Jane moves from situation to situation, she comments on the decoration of her living situation. In each case, the …
July 9, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “I always thought that tea was just gonna taste like hot brown water. And you know what? I was right. It’s horrible. No, thank you.” – Ted Lasso Because some places are starting to open up and because I see hope creeping back …
June 26, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Bread is of universal importance. Since nearly every culture has a type of bread used for celebration, ceremony and comfort, today’s blog breaks bread in the form of an invitation for community. Thank you for joining me today. First, I want to share …
November 23, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Cookery is the most ancient of the arts, for Adam was born hungry.” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin I love cooking and so, naturally, I love old cookbooks. The holidays present a perfect time to rummage through my cookbooks. I learn so much about …
September 7, 2018 Thanks to Ben Peterson, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Once upon two years ago, I met a gentleman who was raised selling illegal whiskey in the dry counties of Arkansas. I asked this man umpteen thousand questions, and he seemed genuinely pleased to answer them for …
July 27, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Food is often thought of in terms of comfort, enjoyment, family gatherings, and parties. We have barbecues in summer and stews in winter. Messy finger foods accompany sporting events and polite finger foods accompany baby showers. These things are linked by their participation …
June 15, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “A wise man always eats well.” – Chinese proverb MFK Fisher (a friend and contemporary of Julia Child) first published How to Cook a Wolf in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The book deals with domestic stresses during war time, …
May 18, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. Conversation: an oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas. Discussion: consideration of a question in an open and usually informal debate; or a formal treatment of a topic in speech or writing. When does conversation become a discussion? According to Merriam-Webster, conversation …
January 19, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Did you know that nearly 70% of social media revolves around food? Seriously, we want everyone to know our favorite recipe, menu, restaurant, table-setting, drink or dinnertime. So many photos of food exist on Pinterest and Facebook it would spin your head. Why …
