Chatter: PETA and Pam, women beer tasters and butchers, why we engender food
Cleaving: Last week, Montreal denied a permit for a (not as lewd as I thought it would be) Pamela Anderson ad for PETA. (This Pam ad didn’t fly either) Montreal […]
Cleaving: Last week, Montreal denied a permit for a (not as lewd as I thought it would be) Pamela Anderson ad for PETA. (This Pam ad didn’t fly either) Montreal […]
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 […]
‘Skinny Bitch,’ for men: As a meat-eating feminist, this new book, “Meat is for Pussies,” just makes me sad. (Somehow, the publishers failed to send me a copy, but Mark […]
Who, if anyone, has the right to tell a pregnant woman would she shouldn’t eat or drink? I haven’t written much about the fact that I’m, um, having a baby […]
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 […]
Last week, I put my own spin on the well-documented canning renaissance in a story about quick pickles and refrigerator jam for the Austin American-Statesman, where I work full time […]
On the farm: “Farmer Jane,” a new book by Temra Costa, explores why there are so many women in the sustainable food movement. From farmers to policy makers, authors to […]
Anthony Bourdain would have made a great home economics teacher. Sure, he’s foul-mouthed and probably not a big fan of kids in that awkward middle school stage, but Bourdain makes […]
Michael Pollan does not hate feminists. I don’t know the man personally. Like many in the food business, I follow his work and think he’s done wonders to raise the […]
I won’t have time to fully read, digest and comment on this Michael Pollan-snubs-feminist thing that has come up this week until the weekend, but I wanted to give you […]
What’s up with these belly fat ads? It seems that every other website is plastered with ads about cutting down on “belly fat”. Animated sketches of women in underwear or […]
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 […]
If the kitchen is a woman’s domain, why are there so few female chefs? It’s easy to cry sexism, but of course it’s much more nuanced than that. If you […]
James Beard lived a long, full life as one of America’s foremost authorities on food. He wrote books, taught classes and cooked on television before Julia Child did. His legacy […]
Women have had a complicated relationship with food. For millennia, domesticity wasn’t a woman’s choice. Keeping house, including preparing food, was a woman’s job whether she liked doing it or […]