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This 25 minutes or less post is my latest attempt to continue to blog in my increasingly crazy life. It’s not exactly original content, but hopefully you’ll enjoy my mom’s original content until I find some time to create more … Continue reading →

Have you see the new Weight Watchers commercials with Charles Barkely? The same people who’ve created a successful campaign with the oh-so-thin Jennifer Hudson are using Barkely to try to reach the simingly untapped market of overweight men wanting to … Continue reading →

For the Feminist Kitchen book club + film series, we’re moving from one Southern writer who happened to write about food to a food writer who happens to be in the South. Last night’s book club meeting on “The Help” … Continue reading →

News flash! Men are doing more of the grocery shopping than ever before. The story from the LA Times’  Emily Bryson York that ran in the business section of today’s Statesman certainly isn’t a revelation, but it’s nice to see … Continue reading →

Julian recently got the newest edition of Guess Who?, a favorite game of my own childhood. It’s always interesting to see how such games evolve. Most of the time, like with the new Candyland, they pale in comparison to the … Continue reading →

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 tasks as knitting a scarf, building a chicken fence, eating … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Ari LeVaux is a freelance food writer whose syndicated column, Flash in the Pan, runs in a number of papers around the country and on his website. He also writes food stories for the Atlantic and several other … Continue reading →

Tidbits of gender and food in American pop culture to ponder this gray November Saturday, just days before Thanksgiving: • Three burly men with beards — Bud Royer of Royer’s Round Top Cafe just outside Austin and the two hosts … Continue reading →

My little sister is about to have her first baby, a little girl they plan to call June. Chelsea and her husband, Kenny, moved to Boise, Idaho, this summer, but the distance from Austin to Boise isn’t near as far … Continue reading →

The November book club meeting is tonight at 7 at Thrice, 909 W. Mary St.. No pre-reading required! Just pick up a few magazines on your way out the door, and we’ll flip through and discuss them. I’m bringing in … Continue reading →

Two food thoughts on this Halloween night. First, since we’ve gone ahead and made Halloween the official holiday of dressing like a slut, why no sexy chef outfits? You can find sexy nurse and teacher outfits, representing traditionally female professions, … Continue reading →

The third best and most talked about weekend of the year is upon us (No. 1 SXSW, No. 2 ACL). The Texas Book Festival, which grows and improves leaps and bounds each year, takes place at the Capitol on Saturday … Continue reading →

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 of the concepts we’ll be discussing. I’m hoping to set … Continue reading →

It was interesting to watch the discussion about culinary elitism evolve over the past week. In a New York Times op-ed piece, former restaurant critic Frank Bruni used what was otherwise an everyday online spitting match between Anthony Bourdain and … Continue reading →

Trying something new this afternoon. Remember Julia Cameron’s “morning pages”? Does anyone still do those? (I’m pretty sure my mom does.) The idea is this: To help yourself along the artist’s way, write three pages every morning. Make it the … Continue reading →

Gloria Steinem is making the rounds in the press right now ahead of the release of a new HBO documentary, “Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words,” that premieres on Monday night. An article on The Daily Beast has a nice … Continue reading →

Thanks to WordPress wonkiness, I can’t embed my favorite liveblogging tool, Cover It Live, here on the site, but I think we’ll be able to use the program on my Tumblr page. So, if you can’t make the screening and … Continue reading →

Gourmet Live is the iPad app version of our favorite, retired magazine, and Kate Sekules posted a list of the top 50 women game-changers today. This is interesting: Rachael Ray isn’t in the top 10, and she’s only a few … Continue reading →