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 […]
“There’s a snake in the kitchen!”
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 […]
Chatter: ‘Meat is for Pussies,’ women in beer ads, sex and food revolutions
‘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 […]
In a pregnancy full of ‘no’s, a little wine won’t hurt
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 […]
Eating fries under a burqa: Devouring (and defending) ‘Sex and the City 2’
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 […]
Flashback: When canning was your patriotic duty
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 […]
Chatter: ‘Farmer Jane,’ slow feminism, props to Betty Crocker and sterile hamsters
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, the feminist: Require everyone to take home ec
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 isn’t the bad guy
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 […]
Michael Pollan has pissed off the feminists
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 […]
Enough with the belly fat ads
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 […]
Chatter: Dude food, aprons and a documentary on waitresses
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 […]
Why so many male chefs and female food writers?
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: Women, stay away from the grill
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 […]
Putting the feminism back in food
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 […]
