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: Social Anxieties
Elsewhere on the Internet–Thinking links
At Tangerine and Cinnamon, a thoughtful food blog I have only just discovered, Sarah Duff ruminates about the problems of “authentic” regional food. What does authenticity mean when different families prepare regional […]
Confessions of a kalevangelist
I have a new piece up at Table Matters about class, cultural capital, and kale. It was an extremely personal piece for me to write–although I only briefly mention my […]
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 […]
Philosophy of a Philly Foodie
Let’s get some assumptions out of the way, shall we? You don’t have to eat expensively to eat healthy food. You don’t have to eat expensively to eat delicious food. […]
What would James Bond eat?
Eggs, according to Elizabeth Hale, whose article in Winter Gastronomica describes a multitude of egg dishes enjoyed by the agent in Ian Fleming’s series. Apparently Bond eats eggs in every one […]
Quick Hit: Mayor buys healthy food with stamps, is very hungry
You’re probably seeing all kinds of headlines about Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his participation in a challenge to see what it’s like to eat off of food stamps. But […]
Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body
In A Moveable Feast, the chapter “Birth of a New School” begins with Hemingway-as-narrator evoking the coolness and the cleanness of a café early in the morning, a seemingly pure […]
Fried chicken for every family and other myths of Southern food
[Cross-posted at Flyover Feminism, an excellent blog for activists in the middle states and other areas often overlooked by major media.] It happened again. I was reading an otherwise perfectly […]
Locating the Both/and in recipe blogs: Response to “Dishing it Out,” Part 2
(Continuation of my response to “Dishing it Out: Food Blogs and Post-feminist Domesticity” by Paula M. Salvio, featured in Gastronomica Vol.12 No.3. Part 1: What kind of blog am I?) […]
