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Chatter: PETA and Pam, women beer tasters and butchers, why we engender food

July 17, 2010by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

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 […]

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chatter

“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

Chatter: ‘Meat is for Pussies,’ women in beer ads, sex and food revolutions

June 29, 2010by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

‘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 […]

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books, chatter, meat, media

In a pregnancy full of ‘no’s, a little wine won’t hurt

June 20, 2010by Addie Broyles 10 Comments

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 […]

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family, traditions

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

Flashback: When canning was your patriotic duty

June 7, 2010by Addie Broyles 10 Comments

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 […]

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cooking projects, history

Chatter: ‘Farmer Jane,’ slow feminism, props to Betty Crocker and sterile hamsters

June 6, 2010by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

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 […]

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agriculture, chatter

Anthony Bourdain, the feminist: Require everyone to take home ec

May 30, 2010by Addie Broyles 5 Comments

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 […]

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books, television

Michael Pollan isn’t the bad guy

May 30, 2010by Addie Broyles 4 Comments

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 […]

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chatter, media

Michael Pollan has pissed off the feminists

May 28, 2010by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

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 […]

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media

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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marketing

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

Why so many male chefs and female food writers?

May 15, 2010by Addie Broyles 7 Comments

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 […]

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media

James Beard: Women, stay away from the grill

May 2, 2010by Addie Broyles 5 Comments

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 […]

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books, history

Putting the feminism back in food

May 1, 2010by Addie Broyles 7 Comments

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 […]

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history, traditions

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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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