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A school year’s worth of Feminist Kitchen meet-ups

August 25, 2013by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

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 […]

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books, magazines, movies, television

Idgie Threadgoode, Iggy the cat and Addie the tomboy

July 27, 2013by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

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 […]

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books, family, history, movies

April book club: Babette’s Feast

February 25, 2013by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

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 […]

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books, movies

August book club: “Heartburn” by Nora Ephron

July 11, 2012by Addie Broyles 3 Comments

For our next book club meeting, we’ll head from academia straight into pop culture with Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn,” her 1983 autobiographical novel that was made into a film with Meryl […]

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books, movies

Chatter: Beanie Babies do ‘The Hunger Games,’ Lady Gaga catches flak for eating a salad instead of a hamburger

April 12, 2012by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

It’s been god knows how long since I’ve compiled links for any blog, but here are a few things worth sharing that have popped up on my radar this week: […]

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chatter, media, movies

May book club: “The Hunger Games”

April 11, 2012by Addie Broyles 3 Comments

Because I’m clearly not the only person drunk on “The Hunger Games” books right now, we’re going to talk about the first book and movie at next month’s Feminist Kitchen […]

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books, movies

“The Hunger Games” busting box office records, plans for weekend

March 25, 2012by Addie Broyles 6 Comments

I haven’t gotten sucked into a young adult book series since I was a young adult myself, but I can’t seem to do anything but read “The Hunger Games” right […]

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books, movies

How do you move beyond something like “Last Tango in Paris”?

January 2, 2012by Addie Broyles 7 Comments

If you haven’t seen The Scene (three words: sex, butter and Brando), then you’ve probably heard about it, and if you haven’t heard about it, then you’re probably better off. […]

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movies

Bonus reading for January book club, plus a field trip to BookPeople for “A Mess of Greens”

December 5, 2011by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

If my pre-Kindergarten son can get 14 pages of homework over Thanksgiving break, I don’t feel too badly suggesting bonus reading for our January book club meeting. Last week, I […]

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books, movies

January book club: “The Help”

November 29, 2011by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

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 […]

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books, history, movies

Book club + film series: Bake cookies to snag a man, ‘Because I Said So’

October 10, 2011by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

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 […]

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movies

The Feminist Kitchen book club + film series

July 9, 2011by Addie Broyles 8 Comments

From “Mildred Pierce” to “Sex and the City,” movies and books are full of women eating, growing, making, sharing, talking about and being described through food. I had no idea […]

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books, movies

Is Mildred Pierce a feminist?

April 30, 2011by Addie Broyles 9 Comments

Until HBO started promoting its new miniseries starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce and Rachel Evan Wood, I’d never heard of Mildred Pierce. The central charcter of James Cain’s 1941 novel […]

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books, movies

Smashing stereotypes and heirloom tomatoes

February 11, 2011by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

If you are at all interested in gender and sexuality — and, really, who isn’t — by now you’ve probably seen “The Kids Are All Right,” one of my favorite […]

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movies

‘Eat Pray Love’ and eat some more

August 14, 2010by Addie Broyles 6 Comments

Every once in a while, the editors at the Statesman ask me to review movies that have something to do with food — it’s been so long since anyone noticed […]

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movies

“There’s a snake in the kitchen!”

July 10, 2010by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

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 […]

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movies

Eating fries under a burqa: Devouring (and defending) ‘Sex and the City 2’

June 12, 2010by Addie Broyles 15 Comments

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 […]

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movies

Chatter: Dude food, aprons and a documentary on waitresses

May 19, 2010by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

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 […]

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chatter, movies

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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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