When family life is too much, hit the mommy conference, minibar
From this week’s Wall Street Journal, a “story” about mommy bloggers who hate their home lives so much that they just can’t wait to get away and hang with their […]
Category Archives: media
Honey Nut Cheerios, chocolate milk and Harper High
What kind of a difference can a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios and chocolate milk make in the life of a troubled young kid? A lot, it turns out. I’m […]
Why Texas Monthly gets it wrong with new Dixie Chicks cover
This post is a hard one to write because I respect and adore both Pat Sharpe, the longtime food editor at Texas Monthly with whom I interned before I started […]
Scene report from a woman having it all at SXSW
Since we’re still talking about women having it all, let’s talk about this woman trying to have it all. First off, for a review of the SXSW Interactive panel called […]
Did we forget about Patty Andrews?
Patty Andrews lived a long and, by most accounts, full life. She was one of the biggest stars in America in the 1940s and beyond as the lead vocalist with […]
From ‘Downton Abbey’ to ‘Portlandia,’ what women do you enjoy watching on TV?
I’m not sure what you’re watching these days, but if you’re like our family, it’s whatever’s new on Netflix or Hulu. We haven’t had cable for years now, but we […]
Should we resist or give in to Titanic impulses?
Happy New Year’s Eve! We’ve made it to the end of 2012, despite predictions that the world might come to an end a week or so ago. This is a […]
Where do snark, Jell-O fit into the feminist conversation?
Firstly, in light of what happened in Connecticut yesterday, a lot of this post seems trivial, but outside a tragedy that unites us in our grief, it remains an interesting […]
Do working women go straight from the binder to the home kitchen?
Props to The Salt (and FK book clubber Deborah Harris who sent me the link on our Facebook group page) for adequately tackling Mitt Romney’s comment from last week’s debate […]
Guest post: Fashion, Food and Feminism on Pinterest
(Editor’s note: Speaking of ebbs and flows, Kimberly Wilmot Voss is on a roll. The University of Central Florida instructor, who is writing a book on the often overlooked editors […]
Guest post: Writing Women into Culinary History
(Editor’s note: I’m so happy to welcome Kimberly Wilmot Voss back to the Feminist Kitchen. You’ll remember that she’s the Florida journalism professor who wrote a guest post about Phyllis Diller […]
Guest post: Lust and Gluttony: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Lauren White, an American Studies senior at the University of Texas at Austin. She is one of the writers for the school’s […]
Twenty five minutes or less: Julia Child, Bob Ross and Mister Rogers remix tributes
“Cooking, cooking, keep on cooking. This is the way to live.”
From NYT mag on growing middle-class matriarchy: “That’s so cute, it’s gross.”
Haven’t had a whole lot of time to pen anything of length for The Feminist Kitchen (thanks for your patience while I work on this food blogger cookbook, readers!), but […]
The highs and lows of Olympic fever: “All they have to be tonight is fabulous”
I’m thoroughly enthralled in the Olympics right now. It’s a guilty pleasure, to be honest, because — despite the endless commercialization of the event and NBC’s increasingly melodramatic story arc […]
If I cook and you do the dishes, who watches the kids?
Keeping track of who has an eye on the kids is one of the hardest, most under-appreciated aspects of parenting. If you’re at a social gathering, it’s so easy to […]
You can keep your ‘arti-choke dip’ — I’ll pass on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
I haven’t read “Fifty Shades of Grey,” but like everyone else, I’ve heard plenty about the racy bestselling book, which has even inspired a Pinterest board with ideas for themed […]
Speaking out against Time’s “Are You Mom Enough?” cover, but in defense of breastfeeding
Because this is not a parenting blog, I’ve avoided the recent firestorm over attachment parenting. The New York Times hosted one of its (poorly executed and overly polemic) “Room For […]
Chatter: Beanie Babies do ‘The Hunger Games,’ Lady Gaga catches flak for eating a salad instead of a hamburger
It’s been god knows how long since I’ve compiled links for any blog, but here are a few things worth sharing that have popped up on my radar this week: […]
“Wilder Life” author to speak in Austin on April 9
Two quick updates this Sunday night: 1) Hat tip (again) to Emily Matchar for pointing out this New York Times story about city living versus country living and the vast […]
