April book club: Babette’s Feast
I confess to knowing next to nothing about Babette’s Feast. Author Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen, is most famous for Out of Africa, which came […]
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August book club: “Heartburn” by Nora Ephron
For our next book club meeting, we’ll head from academia straight into pop culture with Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn,” her 1983 autobiographical novel that was made into a film with Meryl […]
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: […]
May book club: “The Hunger Games”
Because I’m clearly not the only person drunk on “The Hunger Games” books right now, we’re going to talk about the first book and movie at next month’s Feminist Kitchen […]
“The Hunger Games” busting box office records, plans for weekend
I haven’t gotten sucked into a young adult book series since I was a young adult myself, but I can’t seem to do anything but read “The Hunger Games” right […]
How do you move beyond something like “Last Tango in Paris”?
If you haven’t seen The Scene (three words: sex, butter and Brando), then you’ve probably heard about it, and if you haven’t heard about it, then you’re probably better off. […]
Bonus reading for January book club, plus a field trip to BookPeople for “A Mess of Greens”
If my pre-Kindergarten son can get 14 pages of homework over Thanksgiving break, I don’t feel too badly suggesting bonus reading for our January book club meeting. Last week, I […]
January book club: “The Help”
I can’t believe November has almost ended and I still haven’t posted about the next book club. (I blame the Thanksgiving Staycation of 2011 in which I did such domestic […]
Book club + film series: Bake cookies to snag a man, ‘Because I Said So’
Ahead of tomorrow’s Feminist Kitchen book club meeting (come one, come all! Thrice Cafe, 909 W. Mary St. at 7 p.m.), my fellow food blogging feminist Melanie Haupt introduces some […]
The Feminist Kitchen book club + film series
From “Mildred Pierce” to “Sex and the City,” movies and books are full of women eating, growing, making, sharing, talking about and being described through food. I had no idea […]
Is Mildred Pierce a feminist?
Until HBO started promoting its new miniseries starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce and Rachel Evan Wood, I’d never heard of Mildred Pierce. The central charcter of James Cain’s 1941 novel […]
Smashing stereotypes and heirloom tomatoes
If you are at all interested in gender and sexuality — and, really, who isn’t — by now you’ve probably seen “The Kids Are All Right,” one of my favorite […]
‘Eat Pray Love’ and eat some more
Every once in a while, the editors at the Statesman ask me to review movies that have something to do with food — it’s been so long since anyone noticed […]
“There’s a snake in the kitchen!”
Pedro Almodóvar is one of my favorite directors. (According to IMDB, Rachael Ray is also a fan, and she named a chicken dish after him.) He is among the most […]
Eating fries under a burqa: Devouring (and defending) ‘Sex and the City 2′
Oh, how quickly we’ve turned on Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha. The stars of “Sex and the City 2″ had a good run, really. I’m surprised it’s taken critics and […]
Chatter: Dude food, aprons and a documentary on waitresses
The Game of Waitressing: I can’t wait to watch the full version of “Dish,” a documentary about “women, waitressing and the art of service.” “I’m not your servant, I’m just […]
