Japanese Food and Cooking (1956) Stuart Griffin Charles E. Tuttle Co: Publishers This was printed 27 times by 1981. Twenty-seven times! Content warning: a lot of causal historical racism, colonialism, classism, and sexism. My friends, knowing I love food history, gave me a copy of an English-language Japanese cookbook as a parting gift. It’s been…
Category: Gender
Bored of Sexism in Craft Beer, 2014 ed.: Pig Minds
In a case of “same problem, different brewer,” Pig Minds has released a “panty dropper” complete with a sexist label: [sarcasm] I mean, what do you expect, with a name like “Pig Minds”?!1 They’re so edgy and you just know it’s going to push the boundaries, so lighten up, ugh! [/sarcasm] Do we really have to…
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf Aaron Bobrow-Strain Beacon Press, Boston. 2012 I read or acquired a number of books last year on food/social history that I meant to review and didn’t because of the move. Let’s start with White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf, which not only does what…
A Message from the Feminist Jar-Openers Association
If you haven’t see the responses from Vice and Fit and Feminist response to the women of Women Against Feminism who don’t need feminism as it would deprive them of the men who open their jars for them, you’re in for a treat.
The Mushroom Hunt and Vegan Masculinities, or How Not to Report on Food and Gender
Content note: some misogynistic language. I had such high hopes for the NPR Food article “For These Vegans, Masculinity Means Protecting The Planet” by Neda Ulaby. Finally, I thought, a piece about not only food and masculinities, but one in which the gender binary would be broken down, showing that caring about food politics or,…
Beer Is For Everyone: Transphobia Edition
Content warning: brief discussion of transmisogyny. Yes, this is a food blog. Happy Independence Day! Even as I’m going to a barbecue and going to drink lots of craft beer, I want to talk about something serious. There were several gross transphobic comments left on The Beer Wench’s Instagram Friday in a post about The Beeroness.
Feminist Foodie: Vetting Food Blogs
In light of my recent photo contribution to Sociological Images‘ #pointlesslygenderedfood, I’d like to talk about how I navigate food/recipe blogs as a feminist. You’d think this wouldn’t be so hard, and yet I live in a world surrounded (literally) by such gendered products as: When I’m home and looking for recipes to make, I don’t…
The Gender Binary in Health Magazines (Notes on “Are You Working Hard Enough to Achieve Your Natural Body?”)
I am not a healthy-living blogger, but let me take a side-step from food to health for a moment here: I snapped this shot at Bartell Drugs in May and submitted it to Sociological Images’ #PointlesslyGenderedProducts via Twitter, and now it’s a post! I wanted to discuss this image a little further here on the blog…
Eat. Prey. Love?: NBC’s Hannibal
On Saturday morning Hannibal
That’s Mr. IPA to You: Making Sense of Responses to “Mouth-Raper IPA”
Warning: I’m going to write the word rape so many times it’s going to not sound like a word anymore. Also, there will be some discussion of beerbro comments and attitudes about rape culture. If you’ve been following my social media, especially twitter, lately, you’ve seen the Rebecca Rose piece “Dude, ‘Mouth Raper’ Is Not…
Brogurt, “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 More, Packaging Aims to Win Them Over; ‘Inner Abs’ Appeal” (16 Oct. 2013). Can cookies, whole-grain bread and frozen yogurt be manly? Food…
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