Holidays are rooted in cooking and family recipes. When we remember Christmas or Thanksgiving, we remember the smells and the old cookie recipes written on index cards. Along with the holidays comes themed cooking. For Easter we color eggs, for Thanksgiving…
Tag: culture
Lifestyle with no reservations
As we all know, media has a huge impact on food today. There are countless cooking shows on the television, Instagram accounts dedicated to food, Pinterest recipe sharing boards – a whole network of food for us to browse.…
Sexism Seeping Into The Food Industry
Time magazine has posted a very controversial article about “The Gods of Food,” and has ruffled up many female feathers in the process. In their list of the top 13 Food Gods, only 4 women get mentioned, none of whom are chefs. That is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ignoring the female food talent. The Huffington Post published an article in response where female chefs speak their mind about sexism in the food workplace, and they aren’t the only ones responding. Emily Shire, from The Week, also gives her own opinion to the flawed representation and total ignorance of Time Magazine.
Seeing Your Food Through f/2.8
There are two things that have always inspired me: food and photography. My inspirations led me to Vanessa Rees’ website, which offers recipes and photographs of those recipes prepared. Rees won the 2013 Savuer Best Food Blog Award for her…
Rare and très cher…
Take a quick tour of some unique cookbooks, including a cookbook by artist Salvador Dali, Les Diners de Gala (look here for info on what this rare cookbook sells for). [note: this posting is an example of a “Curation post”]
Sharing Family Secrets
The Pot Luck Club from Feed Me A Story on Vimeo.
“Feed Me a Story” is a transmedia project funded in part by the PBS POV’s “Hackathon,” supporting new developments in documentary production. A socio-cultural exploration of food practices, the filmmakers use intergenerational storytelling to get at questions about the American experience through their stories about food. Is this a new kind of documentary filmmaking? cookbook? both? neither?
The Table My Mother Set
Here’s an excellent story about a self-publishing adventure undertaken by Theresa DeCario, whose “The Table My Mother Set” has won several independent publishing awards. Read more about it here: http://www.timesleaderonline.com/page/content.detail/id/508340.html?nav=5008