Category Archives: food literature

A French Love Affair

Posted on October 28, 2014 by t. a. keenleyside

Excerpt from “A French Love Affair,” At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food: “I love France….I’m seduced by its charm and perfectly proportioned beauty: the long, wide avenues where evenly dispersed plane trees hang out alluringly at the curb, languid … Continue reading →

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Setting the Table for the Autumn

Posted on September 6, 2013 by t. a. keenleyside

Turn Off Your Cellphones! It’s Dinnertime! Here are some opportunities this autumn to learn more about the social, psychological and educational importance of dinnertime conversation and to hear some entertaining excerpts from T.A. Keenleyside’s At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and … Continue reading →

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Memories of Indonesia

Posted on August 17, 2013 by t. a. keenleyside

Here’s an excerpt from At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food. It’s from a chapter entitled “On the Road to Social Justice,” depicting Indonesia as it was in the 1970s: In Jakarta, we live in an old Dutch colonial home … Continue reading →

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