It’s another hell week of deadlines over here, so no blogging for me right now. But I do want y’all to watch Local, the latest documentary in my friend Christian’s 12 Films project. I hope he’s proud of this really beautiful and important piece of work.
All posts for the month November, 2011
Local
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 29, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/local/
Prosciutto and Salted Caramel Pear Pizza
Yes, it has been more than a week. I pretty much blew it on the NaBloPlopPlopFizzFizz, didn’t I? Well, there was this little matter of a dissertation defense, and then I had, like, 8,000 papers to grade, and freelance projects to do, and life and stuff. Yes, excuses, excuses, but whatever. Life is good, even [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 16, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/prosciutto-and-salted-caramel-pear-pizza/
Nil Zip Zilch Nada
Y’all, I just don’t have a meaningful, proper blog post in me tonight, what with the grading and the dissertation defense prep. But I did watch a few DVR’ed episodes of The Pioneer Woman’s (awful terrible horrible) show on Food Network with my friend Crystal this afternoon (it was research!) and “live” tweeted it. My [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 7, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/nil-zip-zilch-nada/
A milkshake for lunch
Today I had a milkshake for lunch. Partly because I’d worked myself up into such a froth of anxiety about my imminent Big Day that I couldn’t conceive of eating solid food and partly because I had seen these folks the first night of Fun Fun Fun Fest and was intrigued. Handshakes is a new [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 6, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/a-milkshake-for-lunch/
A feminist food studies bibliography
So, I’m defending my dissertation this Wednesday. Let me say that again: I’m defending my dissertation this. coming. Wednesday. Excuse me. I need to go have a lie-down. I’m thinking of blogging my preparation process over the next few days as a means of articulating my talking points, but I’m not sure about that, given [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 5, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/a-feminist-food-studies-bibliography/
So, I made a pumpkin cheesecake
The other day, I made my first cheesecake in more than five years. I used to make them all the time, and by the time I met The Husband, I had mastered the Ruggles Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cheesecake. Through trial and error, I had learned the best water bath techniques, the right amount of [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 4, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/so-i-made-a-pumpkin-cheesecake/
Top Chef premiere!
Today’s blog post can be found here. Spoiler alert: It’s a recap of last night’s Top Chef: Texas premiere and watch party at Uchiko.
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 3, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/top-chef-premiere/
On eating local food
So, I sort of made a dumb deal with myself in which I would participate in NaBloPoMo to keep my writerly juices flowing (because the flood of freelance work and academic writing isn’t enough?!). Mostly I wanted to goose my blog writing because I have a bunch of ideas but haven’t taken the time to [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 2, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/oneatinglocalfood/
