‘Twas our bicentennial intent: A treasure trove of community cookbooks
This post about community cookbooks is in part inspired by the UT Food Lab’s Women & Food Symposium on Saturday at Gearing Hall at UT. It’s a free event from […]
Category Archives: books
Culinary historian Laura Shapiro headlines Women & Food Symposium on January 18
Oh, buddy. I can’t tell you how excited I am to share here that next month, UT’s Food Lab is hosting a Women & Food Symposium that will feature Laura […]
November book club: Sylvia Plath and Kate Lebo at BookWoman on Nov. 7
Was Sylvia Plath a feminist in the kitchen? What did her poems about domesticity mean to women who were about to revolutionize the world through the women’s liberation movement? What […]
Why Mindy Kaling doesn’t think cooking is important; Michael Pollan book club update
From this story from Sunday’s Parade magazine about one of my favorite writers/comedians: She’s not likely to put her sleek state-of-the-art kitchen to frequent use anytime soon. “If you’re in […]
A school year’s worth of Feminist Kitchen meet-ups
It’s back-to-school time at the Feminist Kitchen! I’ve been compiling a syllabus of sorts for the next year of the Feminist Kitchen book club + film series. As the name […]
Book club: Believing in the Whistle Stop Cafe
Saturday’s “Fried Green Tomatoes” book club got me thinking about the Whistle Stop Cafe, the restaurant that Idgie and Ruth run in the book that plays an even bigger role […]
Idgie Threadgoode, Iggy the cat and Addie the tomboy
See that cute little tomboy in the lower right hand of that photo? That’s me in fourth grade. Playing team sports year-round and growing more aware by the day of […]
Book club update: Loving ‘Apricots,’ looking forward to ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ and Michael Pollan
I promise the Feminist Kitchen wasn’t only created for the book club, but I haven’t had much time lately to blog about interesting women-in-food news, like the awesome public scolding […]
June 11 book club: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
I’m so excited for tomorrow’s get-together to talk about “Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots.” We’ll meet at 7 p.m. at Elaine’s Pork and Pie, 2113 Manor Road. Hopefully we can […]
Talking Julia Child, feminism, waving your freak flag with Bob Spitz at BookPeople
Sorry for the late notice on this, friends, but at 7 p.m. at BookPeople tonight, I’ll be interviewing Bob Spitz, who last year published “Dearie,” which might be the longest, […]
Summer book club picks: Apricots, Fried Green Tomatoes and the New Domesticity
We had so many good options on the table for the next Feminist Kitchen book club that I decided to just plan the next three books that we’ll read and […]
Chatter and book club: Cramming for Babette’s Feast, pondering Mary Kay, fat, ‘Girls,’ ‘Bodies’
Tomorrow night, we’ll be meeting at Elaine’s Pork and Pie, 2113 Manor Road next to Eastside Cafe, at 7 p.m. to talk about Babette’s Feast. I rented the movie from […]
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 […]
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 […]
February love: Book club pick, LongHouse Food Revival
I first connected with MFK Fisher over bread. In her 1942 book, “How to Cook a Wolf,” she wrote so eloquently about the endorphin-inducing ceremony of making bread that it […]
January book club: Was Elaine a feminist? How modern is “Modern Family”?, plus February’s book pick
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Feminist Kitchen holiday get-together last night at Hopfields! I found out that A) Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have his-and-hers perfumes B) […]
Feminist Kitchen holiday hour at Hopfields on Dec. 11
To celebrate another wonderful year of the Feminist Kitchen book club + film series, we’re going to get together for a little holiday get-together at Hopfields Gastropub, 3110 Guadalupe St., […]
Meet Tolly and Polly
I want you to meet my friends, Tolly and Polly. These crazy little characters, who happen to have a Twitter account (@tollyandpolly), came to my sweet husband one Thanksgiving Day a […]
Book clubbing on Tuesday
Looking forward to seeing some of you at the book club Tuesday (tomorrow) at House Wine, 408 Josephine Street, which is right behind the P.Terry’s on the corner of South […]
Feminist Kitchen book club: November meeting and December happy hour!
Another excellent book club this week! Thanks to everyone who came to talk about “Day of Honey” and for helping pick the November book selection: Caitlin Moran’s “How to Be […]
