I Eat the Patriarchy for Brunch
There are few phrases I hate more than “guy food.” As it’s now mid-June, Father’s Day has come and gone, and, like any proper holiday, we celebrate it with food. However, as a food blogger and...
View ArticleKitchen Library – 9.6.2012
A bit of press to start off this reader: a review of this blog from Tony at What Can I Do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies! Welcome, new readers, and よろしくお願いいたします! Roasted Plums and Ice Cream (Joy the...
View ArticleKitchen Library 2012.12.13
Taiwanese food, women and alcohol, colonial Christmas cake, all the cauliflower, and some jam-making updates this week: September Brew, Minoh Beer Around the Web I’ve been catching up on my google...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day, Herbivores
Happy Valentine’s Day, readers! My gift to you is an analysis of the Hotel New Hankyu’s Valentine’s Day roll cakes for, I kid you not, herbivore- and carnivore types. I first saw this image on a...
View ArticleI Did Not Order My Beer with a Side of Sexism
Source: coffeefirstalways While I’ve regrettably come to expect national-brand beers to perpetuate the stereotype of beer as a man’s drink and insult women in the process, what about craft beers?...
View ArticleA Bento is Not As Big As the World
(サチーナの翻訳が更新された?!)UPDATE on the Searchina Translation (3/26) This is a companion piece to “‘Deeply Ingrained Advantages’: American Media Discovers Kyûshoku.” At the same time as Japan’s school lunch...
View ArticleAggressively Cooking Meat with Science: Father’s Day vs. Mother’s Day 2013
It’s that time again~ Pinterest’s suggested Father’s Day pins (email). Subtle we are not. Last year, I wrote about how and what food is marketed for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. 2012 “taught” us...
View ArticleBrogurt, “Check-Out Shame,” and Other Tales of Pointlessly Gendered Food
Today’s adventure in Pointlessly Gendered Products and the People Who Sell Them is brought to you by the Wall Street Journal via Anne Marie Chaker’s piece “Groceries Become a Guy Thing: As Men Shop...
View ArticleKitchen Library 2013.12.13
Working on a big recipe write-up of my new party trick while preparing for holiday travel and a new computer (transfer ALL the files?) has me busy, so in the meantime, here’s what I’ve been reading....
View ArticleEat. Prey. Love?: NBC’s Hannibal | Comparative Geeks
Hullo, readers and darling Fannibals! If you’re interested in reading a food-adjacent piece about NBC’s Hannibal, in which there is food, feminism, and thinly veiled cannibal jokes, I wrote a guest...
View Article“Seattle Sweeties” Campaign Predictably Compares Women to Food, Detracts from...
I desperately wanted to like “Seattle Sweeties,” Cupcake Royale’s line of cupcakes benefiting Runway to Freedom and Mary’s Place, NPOs that work with homeless women and survivors of domestic violence...
View ArticleSpecial Man Chocolates to Tell Him How Special His Masculinity Is
Or, "A box of chocolates is like life: full of problematic masculine posturing."
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