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EPISODE · Apr 10, 2014 · 33 MIN

Samira Kawash on Candy

from Office Hours · host Kyle Green

This week we are joined by Samira Kawash to discuss her book Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure. Samira is a professor emerita at Rutgers University. During our conversation we discuss the important but ignored place candy has occupied in the American conscious, the many shifting meanings attached to the sugary treats, and what […]

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This week we are joined by Samira Kawash to discuss her book Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure [1]. Samira is a professor emerita at Rutgers University. During our conversation we discuss the important but ignored place candy has occupied in the American conscious, the many shifting meanings attached to the sugary treats, and what can be learned from the increasingly blurred line between food and candy. You can read more of Samira's work at www.CandyProfessor.com [2]. Download Office Hours #88 [3] [1] http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780865477568 [2] http://candyprofessor.com/ [3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH88_Kawash.mp3

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