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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 →

Food blogs are predominately written by women. (Eighty percent is the figure I hear most frequently.) The food blog community is so full of passionate, ambitious women that the BlogHer network, one of the largest blogger networks in the world, … Continue reading →

From last week’s PostSecret.

There is no hunger quite like that of a breastfeeding mother. It’s not a swollen-belly Africa hunger. Nor is it the floor-drops-out-from-under-you hunger that happens the morning after Thanksgiving when your recently distended belly goes in shock at having less … Continue reading →

When I first thought about starting the Feminist Kitchen this spring, I wanted to know what else had been written about women and food. I found a few books at the Austin library and several really good essays online. Here’s … Continue reading →

Are you a feminist in the kitchen? When I started up the Feminist Kitchen, I knew I wanted the blog to be a platform for voices other than my own. So, consider this my official invite for you, dear readers, … Continue reading →

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 prolific and influential feminist directors, and his women- and sex-driven … Continue reading →