{"id":4781,"date":"2015-08-21T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T08:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2015-08-27T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:04:19","slug":"anna-katharina-schaffner-in-the-tls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/08\/21\/anna-katharina-schaffner-in-the-tls\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Katharina Schaffner in the TLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, features on the front cover of this week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/\"><em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>(<em>TLS<\/em>), published today,\u00a021\u00a0August 2015, and is the lead article in the editorial.<\/p>\n<p>The article, entitled \u2018Our Sweet Tooth\u2019, is an extended review of <em>The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets <\/em>(OUP, 2015), edited by Darra Goldstein, which compiles work from historians, chemists, restaurateurs and neuroscientists, to explore sweets and sweetness from a variety of different perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It appears that our predilection for sweetness is, like the incest taboo, a cross-cultural phenomenon, and that it is ubiquitous and, in all likelihood, innate,\u2019 explains Anna in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The piece features on pages 10-12, and is also available online here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1595296.ece\">www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1595296.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, features on the front cover of this week\u2019s Times Literary Supplement\u00a0(TLS), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/08\/21\/anna-katharina-schaffner-in-the-tls\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":4782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}