Category Archives: Women's Issues

Before there was Julia…

12th
Jan. × ’10

I had to post from out of nowhere when I read this Mental Floss post about Irma Rombauer andThe Joy of Cooking.  I tend to think of this book as a useful but outdated spring from which American culinary interest flowed.  I didn’t know that Rombauer was a first-generation American, nor that she was admittedly [...]

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SatisFAT-ion: how I learned to stop worrying and love the schmaltz.

14th
Oct. × ’09

I am by no means a person (woman, Jew) without food issues.  I was a chubby kid growing up, though that never stopped me eating what I liked, and I was also an active kid so that largely balanced things out.  I got heavier when I became a bookworm, got skinnier when I became interested [...]

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