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Open Thread

This Open Thread Is Stuffing Its Face

Yes M’am, it is.

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Sex

What’s Food Got To Do With It? Combining Sex and Food

Q. I spent the evening giggling via gchat with my long-distance bff about all the terrible Cosmopolitan sex tips. I found, though, as I ran across ones like, “Feed each other ice cream in the dark. You’ll miss, it’ll be messy, lick lick lick,” (I’m paraphrasing here), I thought, hey, that’s not so bad. I mean, […]

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Veg*

Food for Thought

Lately, I’ve been doing recipe reviews to expand my own culinary skills and to share my mistakes with others, thus hopefully preventing them from repeating my errors. It’s almost a public service! I mean, not really, but I am feeling a little self-aggrandizing. This week, I do not have any recipe review, though, because I […]

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Bodies

Eating Like a Goddess

Nearly every woman I know has a screwed up relationship with food. I think the way to heal this is not more of the same; it’s eating like a goddess.

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Veg*

Travel Eats

I’ve spent this week gearing up for a weekend trip. It’s sort of put a damper on my cooking aspirations, but the process has allowed me to realize that there are some important tricks to getting ready for a trip – and staying satiated while on it. For most of you, these will be old hat, […]

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: One Food Forever

Happy Tuesday, Persephoneers! How are your collective days shaping up? We’ve got a great day in store for you, so let’s kick it off with a fun LTP, shall we? 

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Travel

Winter Holidays: Iceland

This December, I had a week’s holidays from work that I had to take before 2012, or they’d disappear into whatever ether bureaucratic allowances go. So off I flew to Iceland. In winter. Bear with me, it’s not as mad an idea as you might think… Yes, Iceland in winter is, um, icy. And snowy–as […]

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Mental Illness

Eating After Eating Disorder

Trigger warning for frank discussion of food issues and eating disorders. Recently I read an article listing common eating disorder symptoms that tend to linger long after the major issues are conquered. It really struck a nerve. My major lingering personal hurdle? Juice.

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Food

How Much Is That Havarti in the Window?: Eating on a Budget Kind of Sucks

I like to do things in my life the wrong way.  Recently I went from being a pencil skirt and blazer-wearing, reasonably respectable member of the business community (no, really, I worked at the Chamber of Commerce) with a full time paycheck to a jeggings-wearing, hippie college student (in Art History of all the lucrative […]