I hate to distract anyone from the serious business of talking about how FUCKING AWESOME we all are, but it’s come to my attention that many Shapelings are spectacular cooks, some with dazzling signature recipes, and I would like to know more about these things. Tell us, please, about those recipes. Plus any helpful tips … Continue reading »
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Quote of the Day
We’ve gotten ourselves to the point where we’re behaviorally and neurochemically dependent upon food. -MeMe Roth, during Nightline’s big fat debate That’s right, you lazy gluttons! This is what your lack of respect for your bodies, the healthcare system, your fellow taxpayers and MeMe’s certificate from a degree mill have wrought. We are now dependent on … Continue reading »
Notes toward an elegy: In praise of food
First rule of nutrition: eat or die. Second rule of nutrition: there are no other rules. My mother died two weeks ago. She had been deeply ill – dying for so long, so slowly. What we knew would one day happen did: she lost the ability to eat. She had a stroke that made it difficult … Continue reading »
Holiday Meal Planning, Kate-Style
Shapelings, this is the first year since Al and I met that we will be spending Christmas at home instead of in Vegas. Since our families are spread all over two countries and we found out that some friends — specifically, Sweet Machine, Ottermatic, their respective partners and Ottermatic’s bestie (hereafter, OTMBFF) — would be … Continue reading »
Friday fluff: Take back the (diet) food
Shapeling BlueRain points out that in my last post I was unfair to okara, the main ingredient in the Magical Diet Cookies. She notes: Okara (as well as Shirataki mentioned in someone’s comment upthread) is a traditional food item in Japanese cuisine, and having it appropriated as “low-fat/low-cal miracle diet food” is offensive enough, but … Continue reading »
Monstrous cookies for cookie monsters
From the NYT comes this story about the Cookie Diet, a diet plan in which you survive on “six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one ‘real’ meal — say, skinless chicken and steamed vegetables.” The idea here seems to be that you will be so entranced by the idea of eating the sinful “cookies” that … Continue reading »
Quote of the day: On fullness
I’m currently reading Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),” the bloggiest book of the 19th century. Since it concerns the adventures of three 19th-century bachelors and a dog rowing a small skiff down the Thames and camping along the way, there is unsurprisingly a lot of emphasis … Continue reading »
Dainty Little Bites: Discuss.
So the fellas and I are packing up and moving several states away this week — on Friday or Saturday, depending on how packing and loading up the truck goes — and as a result I have no dadgummed clue where my copy of Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is. It may be in the garage … Continue reading »
Open thread: Follow the rules?
Shapeling RedSonja has a question that we think you all can answer better than we can. Let’s play collective Aunt Fattie! Here’s the situation: My boss was telling me the other day that his sister and her children are coming to visit. Apparently she felt both fat and ostracized in high school (I say felt, … Continue reading »
The Obamas: Just like us!
Jezebel points us to a maddeningly obtuse series of recent articles about the Obamas’ eating habits. (There’s even an [unofficial] Obama food blog, for the truly obsessive.) Apparently the Obamas are baffling the pundit class by sometimes eating vegetables, and sometimes eating burgers. It’s true! Apparently this magical family is able to eat French freedom … Continue reading »
