Something’s rotten in Russian Doll
My local CSA does home deliveries during this period of isolation, and although I am working from home I find myself with plenty of time to cook, so I ordered […]
Category Archives: Meat
Search Term Sampler: Why do certain foods seem to be gendered?
Some intrepid researcher was led to my site by Googling this phrase: gender connotations to food So glad you asked! I’ve been working on a chapter on that very topic. I […]
The gender of junk food in Disney’s short film “Feast”
This weekend, I went to see Big Hero 6 as a well-deserved break from the looming work deadlines that have been keeping me from my blog. (I do miss it […]
Link Buffet: The Meat We Don’t Eat
At The Toast, A Meat Processing Professional Reviews Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. True confession: I loved The Road when I first read it, which I now chalk up to the […]
Quick hit: Seeing Picasso in a sausage
I recently came across this witticism in my reading: “A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”–A. P. Herbert The context is “Trott v. Tulip: […]
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 […]
