I’m full of wrong opinions, so here’s one: I hate the phrase “happy holidays”. Yeah, I know, I’m a liberal Jew, I should be championing this along with friendsgiving, BCE, and liberal use of the term verklempt. But like all of those, I think it’s a hugely problematic and superficial solution to a much deeper […]
Unless you are a very particular kind of musical theater nerd, there’s a good chance you don’t care that a show called Hadestown won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical last Sunday. But you should. Read More
I’m full of wrong opinions, so here’s one: I hate the phrase “happy holidays”. Yeah, I know, I’m a liberal Jew, I should be championing this along with friendsgiving, BCE, and liberal use of the term verklempt. But like all of those, I think it’s a hugely problematic and superficial solution to a much deeper […]
On being the elephant in the room… Before I was pregnant, I didn’t think so much about the concept of a post-pregnancy body except to wonder why celebrity magazines seemed to be so obsessed with it. But that also seemed pretty normal, since these publications are already obsessed with women’s bodies at every stage of […]
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that coffee sales are down as a result of the pandemic. Like makeup and gasoline, coffee is less in demand when people aren’t leaving their houses, and like the restaurant industry as a whole, coffee shops often rely on foot traffic or at the very least gathering indoors, […]
I’m not looking forward to this, but let’s be honest, I’ll probably end up seeing it anyway. Oh hey, did you hear Disney is making a live-action version of its classic animated movie Aladdin? And the cast is all people of color? Wow, what a cool and progressive update on a favorite intellectual property! The […]
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that coffee sales are down as a result of the pandemic. Like makeup and gasoline, coffee is less in demand when people aren’t leaving their houses, and like the restaurant industry as a whole, coffee shops often rely on foot traffic or at the very least gathering indoors, […]
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/wellness-influencers-indian-food Fad wellness is more than just the fashion of health, it’s often the fashion of other cultures. In the latest addition to a growing corpus of surprisingly insightful food-related reporting, Bon Appetit considers how the wellness industry has coopted Indian food traditions and what that means. This sits right at the nexus of some […]
Thanks to my rapidly growing pregnant belly, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately watching the PBS series “Finding your Roots” and it’s got me thinking about how historians use sources and what the average person knows about them (and a lot about genealogy, which you can read my extended thoughts on here). Read […]
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that coffee sales are down as a result of the pandemic. Like makeup and gasoline, coffee is less in demand when people aren’t leaving their houses, and like the restaurant industry as a whole, coffee shops often rely on foot traffic or at the very least gathering indoors, […]
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that coffee sales are down as a result of the pandemic. Like makeup and gasoline, coffee is less in demand when people aren’t leaving their houses, and like the restaurant industry as a whole, coffee shops often rely on foot traffic or at the very least gathering indoors, […]
Thanks to my rapidly growing pregnant belly, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately watching the PBS series “Finding your Roots” and it’s got me thinking about how historians use sources and what the average person knows about them (and a lot about genealogy, which you can read my extended thoughts on here). Read […]
Chocolate chip cookies, plus a lot of ingredients that supposedly promote lactation in women who have just given birth, but anyone can eat them because really who is going to resist chocolate chip cookies? Read More
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that coffee sales are down as a result of the pandemic. Like makeup and gasoline, coffee is less in demand when people aren’t leaving their houses, and like the restaurant industry as a whole, coffee shops often rely on foot traffic or at the very least gathering indoors, […]
