food
In Bad Taste: The Alison Roman Fiasco Illustrates the Whiteness of Food Media
We continue to enable the conditions in the food industry that marginalize chefs and food personalities of color.
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Dinner Party for One: Cooking for Yourself in the Age of Social Distancing
Cookbooks are great, but they often aren’t taking into account that some of us are cooking for one.
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The Patriarchy Is in the Pudding
Making Christmas pudding is turning out to be like childbirth or menopause—one of those things women don’t talk about, and when you get there yourself, you realize that it would’ve been great for someone to have mentioned incontinence, vaginal dryness, or the need for inordinate upper body strength... Read more »
For “Great British Baking Show” Contestants, The Real Loss is the Endless Trolling
It’s not just about harassing women online—it’s about re-establishing gendered power dynamics and punishing those who flirt with the domestic on public-facing platforms.
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Food Fight: SNAP Restrictions Are Penalties for Poverty
For the poor in this country, food is often linked to shame and dehumanization.
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Popaganda: Stovetop Social Justice
The Los Angeles-based organization Miry’s List has been supporting thousands of individuals and hundreds of families resettling as refugees in the United States since 2016.
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A Pleasure to Burn: One Family’s Hot-Sauce Heirloom
In my family, harming yourself is unholy, unless that harm is eyes watering from tasting hot sauce.
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We’re Here, We’re Beer, Get Used to It: Brewing up a Tasty New Paradigm for Female Beer Enthusiasts
Why has a libation with such a female-centric origin story become coded, over time, as the near-exclusive reserve of men?
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Cake Is Never Just Cake: The Fraught Politics of Fatness, Desire, and Eating Your Feelings
Within the framework of capitalist systems, eating “right” has been tied to financial and social privilege in a way that further marginalizes people who are already struggling.
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Culinary Poet: For Chef Miranti, Unapologetic Feasting Is a Gift and a Goal
“Our biggest issue in America is the fact that people have a very toxic relationship with food.”
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