What is a food holiday?
(“…and why isn’t it in my mouth?” as one of my colleagues would say.) Since you, reader of this food culture blog, are likely a somewhat geeky person and likely […]
Category Archives: Holidays
Happy Valentine’s Day: Links and Love
Those delectable (disgusting) little treats are hand-sculpted human hearts, made from marzipan and doused in probably too much red food coloring. I made them with friends several years ago for […]
Force-feeding unruly women at the turn of the 20th century
Brain Pickings recently re-posted some anti-suffragist “valentines”—Valentine’s Day postcards from the turn of the last century that mocked the suffrage movement’s push for votes. They’re all pretty terrible, but this […]
Racist Cakes
Last week when my Twitter feed blew up with references to a racist cake, I thought it was a revival of the criticism of Sandra Lee’s Kwanzaa “harvest” cake. Racist […]
