Dismantling a couple of strawfeminists in food discourse
My “review” of Michael Pollan’s Cooked went up today. The scare quotes should warn you: it’s more of a frustrated excoriation. It’s a badly organized book, full of prose shortcuts and […]
Category Archives: Reviews
The Basics
In several relationships over the last few years, I’ve practiced the kitchen rule–like the campsite rule, except that the commitment is to leave my partners better cooks than they were when […]
One way of looking at “Foodies”
Back when I managed book exhibits at scholarly conferences, I noted the frequency with which book-booth neighbors would pass the time by talking about good, sophisticated food options in a […]
Why is it so hard to get a good food anthology together?
One of my coworkers forwarded me the NYT review of a new anthology of food poems, The Hungry Ear. It was an ambivalent review to say the least; overall, the […]
Review: Craving Earth, by Sera L. Young
Young, Sera L. Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. This book is a data-rich study of instances […]
