Link Buffet: Thanksgiving Links
Artist Hannah Rothstein plates traditional Thanksgiving dinners in the style of modern artists such as Mondrian: At NPR, the ever-sharp Linda Holmes has a delightful takedown of NYT’s list of Thanksgiving […]
Category Archives: Family
OitNB: “Come get you some cake.”
I can’t believe I’m making two television posts in a row. But there is a lot of really good, thoughtful television on the air these days–and in this age of […]
Link Buffet: Building Up and Tearing Down
My college friends had a saying–or command, rather: “Build the house!” we’d say to one another if one of us was dragging, flailing, trying to stay afloat in open water […]
Soft Cakes
As I sleepwalked through the airport last Saturday morning, my foggy haze was dissipated and delighted by an exhibit of knitted cakes near my gate. They are by Philadelphia fiber […]
CSA Week 5: So much green
This week we got: red lettuce, dandelion greens, spinach, spring onions, collards, mixed baby greens, broccoli, oregano, and spearmint. SO MUCH GREEN. I’ll be sad when it gets too hot […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eating, enjoyment, and The Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins has been making a bit of a splash in the book business, not least because one of its main characters is morbidly obese. Though I suspect (perhaps with premature […]
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?) […]
