Eating, like cooking, is an outlet for creativity and manipulation. Take Oreos, for instance. Do you eat the frosting first and save the chocolate wafers for last? Do you carefully take apart the cookie to…
Food and Culture
Cookies in the Holidays
Magazine covers feature Thanksgiving turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing, or some variation. But for the December issue, magazines often veer from the Christmas dinner. The covers of the three top national food magazines this…
Language and gender on food radio
Radio is one of the most accessible and flexible forms of mass communications, providing news, education, and entertainment to millions of people around the world. For radio phone-ins, the host, the dominant voice, invites listeners…
Connect with Food TV
Television has long been accused of driving people apart. And to some extent, this is true. Conversations on sitcoms replace dinner table talk. Blue glow from the tv screen replaces reading lights. Multiple tvs encourage…
Street food: creating space, eating place
We rarely consider where we eat. From the home kitchen, restaurant, café, to the outdoors with picnics and street food, the place where you eat is important. It can influence the type of food you…
Food Mantras
We love mantras, maxims, proverbs, manifestos, mottos anything that packs big ideas in a few words. We’ve always been fascinated by food mantras. These are like personal policies or a set of rules that are…
Top Food Podcasts for 2017
Podcasts are great entertainment plus informative, whether you’re on the road, in the airplane, or at the gym. You can select from news, sports, gossip, self-improvement, and our favorite– food. Here’s a roundup of our…
Types of Food Tourists
With summer officially here, travel is on the mind of many. Whether you go to the beach, the mountains, the lake, or go the cultural route and visit museums and take classes, you’ll also need…
Travel to Eat: Culinary Tourism
We eat when we travel. But we can also travel to eat. “Culinary tourism,” a term first suggested by scholar Lucy Long describes the idea of tourists experiencing other cultures through food. Food is both…
Ree Drummond on Food, Life, and Family
Celebrity chefs enter our living room, mobile phones, and kitchens through their cooking shows, kitchen and food products, and cookbooks. This is the third post of a three-part series where we share what we’ve learned…