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: Gender
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 […]
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 […]
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?) […]
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 […]
Microaggressions
Microaggressions are behaviors–frequently speech acts–that demean or discriminate. They are often seemingly minor acts that may be brushed aside by others–”you’re taking it too seriously,” “I didn’t mean to offend […]
