The distance between Juzo Itami's Tampopo and David Chang's Lucky Peach illustrates how far American food culture has come since the movie was first released
We come, then, to the secret meaning of the secessionist petitions: They evince not a rejection of, but a desperation for, an intimate union with the state.
Despite the history of socially sanctioned feasts and fasts, we're quick to pathologize women who eat inconsistently. Why do women need a good reason to devour?
Two developments of the past few years call for the re-opening this discussion of the relationship between feminist politics and the referentiality of language: the feminist blogosphere and the lyrics of Taylor Swift.
MTV’s Teen Mom presents teen motherhood not as a threat to the normal structures of everyday life, but as our new social reality. What it doesn’t get to is that this is a good thing