• Because of our delightfully stringent comments policy, most of the rants about fatties eating everything in a twelve-block radius never make it [...]

  Stumbling towards ecstasy

  April 23, 2009
• Shark-Fu has a great post over at Feministing about a 60 Minutes interview with Alice Waters, “the mother of slow food.” Overall, the [...]

  Quick Hit: Shark-Fu on Nutrition and Privilege

  March 24, 2009
• According to The Guardian, a panel of nutritionists and dietitians have reviewed a bunch of celebrity chefs’ cookbooks and declared them [...]

  Quick Hit: It’s Almost as if Fat Tastes Good

  March 13, 2009
• So this idea is so dumb that I don’t want to give it too much ink — certainly not as much as the BBC did, christ — but I got a [...]

  I’m a chocoholic, I’m addicted to chocahol

  March 12, 2009

• This article with the oh so clever title of “‘Joy of Cooking’ or ‘Joy of Obesity’?” describes a study that [...]

  How many grams of fat in a gallinule?

  February 18, 2009
• This time with an officially real person, Emily Blunt. That is, Emily Blunt, Doughnut Smuggler.  On being monitored to make sure she [...]

  I am in love for the second time this week

  February 16, 2009
• Andy Wright at Mother Jones nails everything wrong with Mars’s new candy bars for the lady market so perfectly, I can’t even add [...]

  WTF of the day: Fling candy bars

  February 15, 2009
• All right, y’all, it’s time for another recipes thread. I’m trying to do more cooking, and I’m looking for stuff to try. [...]

  Recipes: Cheap Eats

  February 3, 2009

• Robert Blue was arrested for chaining his 15-year-old daughter to a bed, because he thought she was fat and wanted to stop her from eating.  On [...]

  No words

  January 22, 2009
• I’ve never really watched Project Runway — not from lack of desire but from lack of cable — so I don’t know much about [...]

  Grow up already

  January 10, 2009