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Twenty five minutes or less: Julia Child, Bob Ross and Mister Rogers remix tributes

September 15, 2012by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

http://youtu.be/80ZrUI7RNfI

“Cooking, cooking, keep on cooking. This is the way to live.”

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marketing, media

What does it mean to “Lose Like A Man,” Charles Barkley?

January 12, 2012by Addie Broyles 6 Comments

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 […]

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marketing, media, television

Food Selling Sex: As American Apparel as apple pie

September 17, 2011by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

Satire has always been sticky. When Dallasite Nancy Upton heard about American Apparel’s tacky pitch for a plus-size modeling contest, she was pissed. She writes on the Daily Beast: The […]

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marketing

Want to feel like a viking? Drink diet soda

February 9, 2011by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

Sorry for the long delay in posts. Like everybody, work and family are keeping me busier than I’d like and The Feminist Kitchen is at the bottom of the totem […]

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marketing

Chatter: Women eating alone, vodka as a fashion accessory

January 6, 2011by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

Happy meals: In the vein of woman laughing with chocolate or black women laughing while shopping, I present, women laughing while eating salads alone. Eating out: Women think about food […]

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chatter, marketing, media

Chatter: Betty Crocker is PMSing, gender while dining out and the feminine face of farming

December 6, 2010by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

PMS = free chocolate: Betty Crocker has an idea: Create an app that will track your friend/mom/sister’s period so you can know when to send them brownies! “When PMS looms, […]

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chatter, marketing

Sex Selling Booze: Vodka

December 6, 2010by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

She’s all natural! When it comes to selling alcoholic drinks (or anything for that matter), I like this female imagery a lot better.

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marketing

Sex Selling Food, part 1: Pomegranates

October 15, 2010by Addie Broyles 4 Comments

Inspired by Mark Bittman’s This #$!% Has Got to Stop, welcome to Sex Selling Food, a series featuring the worst examples of sex/women’s bodies being used to sell food and […]

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marketing, media

What’s dignity going for these days? $500, says KFC

October 2, 2010by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

KFC’s Double Down sandwich: $5 Red sweatpants: $12 “Stipend” for services: $500 Falling into another sexist food marketing trap so that a fast food chain can use your behind to […]

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marketing, meat

Enough with the belly fat ads

May 23, 2010by Addie Broyles 7 Comments

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 […]

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Addie Broyles is a food writer for the Austin American-Statesman. She is also a freelance writer, Missourian and mom of two.

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