Tag Archives: food
Couscous + Fruit
I don’t do a lot of recipe posts because, well, this isn’t Pinterest, okay? But today, the thing I’m most excited to talk about happens to be the couscous fruit salad I made for a potluck, so this is what … Continue reading
I Think Amy Poehler May Have Served Me Steak Fries
If you’re familiar with Stars Hollow then you pretty much know what my town looks like. If you’re not, Jesus, go watch some Gilmore. In all seriousness, Lexington, MA, was a lovely, quaint place to grow up. Within one block, … Continue reading
Mmmm… Delicious!
Alida at The Frenemy is doing a project, and we should all help her out. She’s collecting pictures of girls eating food. The point is to combat, in visual form, the association of dainty starvation with femininity. In her words, … Continue reading
Filed under Body Image, Food, Gender
Halloween Post-Mortem
My costume was a hit: At least, I thought it was a hit, and let’s be real, that’s all that matters. I wish the many hours I’d spent velcroing the pieces together had paid off with some clever interactive gamesmanship, … Continue reading
Sunday Scraps 31
1. STEVE: There are a ton of great profiles this week of Steve Jobs. Rather than read those, spend 15 minutes listening to his 2005 commencement speech to Stanford University. 2. FEMINISM: This is the latest in the Tropes vs. … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Body Image, Education, Food, Gender, Hollywood, Media, Politics, Really Good Writing by Other People, Sports
Sunday Scraps 30
1. MINDY: I knew Mindy Kaling was cool, but I didn’t know she was this cool. She wrote a play about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck writing Good Will Hunting, and she played Ben! 2. CEREAL: As a formerly avid … Continue reading
Filed under Advertising, Food, Hollywood, Media, Politics, Really Good Writing by Other People
Sunday Scraps 29
1. SPORTS: If, a week ago, you had asked me whether college athletes should be paid, I would have said hell to the no. Then I read this incredibly long but amazing piece from The Atlantic and did a total … Continue reading
Food Blogger for a Day
I’m branching out. No sex talk, media spin, advertising criticism, Hollywood gossip, gender wars or body love that you’ve come to expect. Today, it’s all about food. I’m guest-blogging at what, in my mind, is a baby Smitten Kitchen called … Continue reading
Filed under Food, Guest Posts
Sunday Scraps 53
1. BEAUTY: One mom, Eleni Gage, writes about how she pierced her infant’s ears and wound up on the receiving end of a whole slew of comments ranging from “female genital mutilation!” to accusations of class warfare. 2. REDDIT: Pretty … Continue reading →
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