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 [...]
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Nil Zip Zilch Nada
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/
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/
Jack Allen’s Kitchen
I don’t usually do restaurant reviews here, but I’m making an exception for my newest obsession, Jack Allen’s Kitchen. (Don’t worry, Olivia, Contigo, and La Condesa. I still love you, too.) When my dissertation chair, the elitistacademic, invited me to lunch at JAK, she pitched it as “serious farm-to-table fare.” I usually don’t take much [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 17, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/jack-allens-kitchen/
Apple crisp
It’s October. Technically fall. Apples and pears are in abundance at the grocery stores and farmers’ markets. And yet it’s still 90 degrees outside in my town. Oy vey, times a thousand. It’s supposed to drop down into the 70s this week, so we’ll be able to think about soup and hearty meals for about [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 16, 2011
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Shoofly, don’t bother me
One of the obsessions that has emerged from my dissertation research is women’s personal recipe collections. Now, there are already books written about women’s cookbooks as material artifacts, so I don’t think I’ll ever write one myself. That said, I think they’re a fantastic way to piece together a profile of a woman. And sometimes [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on August 11, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/shoofly/
Baked Sunday Mornings: Mom’s Olive Oil Orange Bundt Cake
I decided, on the spur of the moment yesterday, to dip my toe back into the Baked Sunday Mornings project. I had made an executive decision, after three months of full-time work (a tough adjustment after more than 10 years of a part-time schedule!) and weekends that saw us run ragged with To Dos, to [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on July 31, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/baked-sunday-mornings-moms-olive-oil-orange-bundt-cake/
On failure
These were supposed to be black-bottom cupcakes, as seen here. I made them in anticipation of a girls’ night in I’m having here at my house tonight with some friends from school. Kind of a big difference, no? I think that the combination of using mascarpone instead of regular cream cheese and overfilling the muffin [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on June 18, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/on-failure/
Shameless self-promotion
While I continue to plot a post on our mega-strawberry-picking excursion, please allow me to take a moment to point you to a guest post I did at Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style. It’s a little sneak peek at Chapter 1 of my dissertation, and it involves my Internet bête noire, the Pioneer Woman.
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 10, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/shameless-self-promotion-2/
