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Esther Martin, MLA

@emartin.bsky.social

food studies MLA. folklorist. public historian | special interest shitposter | Laurel's butler (mom). instructional design. | gardens. estate sales. cats. estherannemartin.com esthermartin.substack.com

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#foodstudies

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

When is an estate sale not an estate sale? When I'm there having an existential crisis about death. esthermartin.substack.com/p/theres-a-g...

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There’s a Ghost in My House

And I bought it at an estate sale.

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Y'all, I have a Substack. It's called The Kitchen Sink and the Very First Post is about meat tins. In fact, it's only Part I of meat tins. You never know there was so much to learn about tins full of meat. esthermartin.substack.com/p/meat-tins-...

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Meat Tins - Part I

They're material culture, goshdernit!

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 29/06/2025

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A day late, but ten years ago yesterday we hosted the first ever #FolkloreThursday over on Twitter! TEN YEARS people!!!! What a decade it's been - THANK YOU to everyone who has been with us over the years, and here's to keeping on putting the folk back into folklore!

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is the food change we need in the world. #foodstudies

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#foodstudies

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/06/2025

"No more living to work for me, now I’m working just to stay alive."

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Life is Great Now That I’ve Quit My Job and Pinned Myself Under This Enormous Boulder

One morning, after years of slogging through 60-hour work weeks, I woke up, looked in the mirror, and realized that I didn’t like what I saw. I was...

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I've done it. I've officially received my MLA in Gastronomy from BU. There are things I've been proud of, but never like this. I wasn't able to attend graduation, but my lovely friend provided me with a realistic representation of what it would look like if I did.

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KC Hysmith, PhD @kchysmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Happy pub day, An American Girl Anthology! Sharing a bit about the book process and my feelings about writing my first not-food book (and the food history that helped shape it) in my latest newsletter with fellow food scholar/co-author @emartin.bsky.social!

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Meet An American Girl Anthology

My first not-food book and the food history that helped shape it

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Yuuuusssss, also preorder this book because I wrote something with @kchysmith.bsky.social in it, and god we need this win.

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Always proud when my comments make it to the Snacket email.

An email in the iPhone email app with the subject line Snacket XI - Round 2. The quote says “why not just put cat food on here, Jesus.”

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I am excited to share, a full week later, that I turned in my last incomplete 10 years late for my 11-year-old two year part-time masters degree with BU Gastronomy. I’d like to thank all my haters, primarily myself, who never thought I’d get here.

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Esther Martin, MLA @emartin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Me trying to set up Bluesky thinking I’d already joined with TheFoodlorist years ago: DAMMIT emartin is taken!!! Who took it UGH!!! Me. It was me. I took it.

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