It’s that time again! As I’ve written before, Halloween has exploded into the Japanese food scene. Ten years ago, there were–as to be expected–barely any Halloween specials or goods. An increasingly large cultural shift toward Halloween as popular (children’s) holiday began sometime around 2010. While some of the shift was motivated by consumer demand, the ramped up…
Category: Food Culture
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
Baked Kit Kats (焼きキットカット)
In case you were wondering what the new 焼きキットカット (baked Kit Kats) were like, I’ve assembled a list of reviews!
Food Report: Sakura Season 2014, Part 3
Part 1 Part 2 I didn’t mean to turn this blog into a tribute to cake and sakura sweets, and yet here we are with another sakura pop-culture chain-food post. I do have a curried stew recipe in the works, and I swear it’s sugar free. Back to that sakura food for a moment: one…
Food Report: Sakura Season 2014, Part 2
Part 1 here. At the risk of being all doughnuts all the time lately: While Mister Donut may not be bringing back the sakura donut for 2014, Krispy Kreme is! (But only until March 31, so you’ll have to hurry!)
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