In 1992, the public voted for Hilary Clinton’s cookies. How this cookie election came about is a little convoluted. To oversimplify: Clinton’s successful career in law became fodder for political opponents who wished to […]
In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel explores the role of family and marriage in the stability of the state. For Hegel, the critical element of a marriage is opposite sexes which […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday, The Hairpin posted a lengthy but well-considered examination of “snackwave” by Rookie writers Hazel Cills and Gabrielle Noone. “Snackwave” is the authors’ own term for the pop culture and social media […]
I’m delighted to be participating in Deborah Hemming’s Women in the Kitchen series, which explores the different relationships specific women have with cooking and kitchen spaces. As you may have […]
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: […]
Via Colossal, these vintage dishes covered with hand-painted ants by Evelyn Bracklow are delightfully creepy. I love the way the artist mimicks the clustering of ants when they swarm a […]
I enjoyed the lamb fennel tajine so much that I’m still talking about it, this time in more detail at the Penn Press Log. The recipe came from our new book Scheherazade’s Feasts, a […]
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”—Virginia Woolf “The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes,” she adds wryly, […]
