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From the Anthology: Food & Writing with Sarah Gerard

This was originally published in The Inquisitive Eater Anthologywhich you can now purchase online.


What’s your go-to snack when you’re reading or writing? Raw arugula.

What’s your favorite piece of writing that has to do with food? The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams.

What do you think is the most writerly food/drink? Scotch.

What’s a food you’ve read about that you wish you could actually experience? I have never had a Christmas goose. I’d like to try that.

If you had to live off one food for the rest of your life what would it be? Raw clams.


Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times critics’ choice, and the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney’s, The Baffler, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She lives in Florida.

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