This is indeed a real cookbook. I hereby invoke awesomesauce. Advice columnists have a sweet gig. Basically they get to tell strangers how to run their lives without ever having to deal with the consequences. And yet, as I discovered during my senior year of my Psych degree, I am really really bad at giving …
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Holidays can be scary times for people with food issues. For many years I spent the run-up to certain holidays panicking about what I was going to eat (or not eat) at home, at friends’ houses, at parties, at restaurants, at the next Royal Wedding (Seriously, was Kate’s dress not gorgeous? Also, now I want …
Now THIS would be a legitimate reason to freak out… (Ad is for Nikon face recognition software – “finds faces you don’t even see” Eeeeek!) There’s the mom who confessed to loving her son more than her daughter, to the point that if her daughter died she’d be okay with it as long she could …
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This proves it: Team Pie people are smarter. Don’t feel bad Team Cake, at least you’ll always have Marie Antoinette. The price of cake has gone up this year. Not in the monetary sense, mind, but rather in the emotional sense. We should start here: I don’t like cake. Growing up I was always on …
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This will be harder for me than you would first think as it will require me to walk around blindfolded and ear-plugged for the next 40 days. Today is Ash Wednesday, as evidenced by the announcement of the loudspeakers at the airport every 5 minutes: “For all airline passengers and employees wishing to observe Ash …
www.toothpastefordinner.com Chronicling my daily eats wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be. I have new respect for all you food bloggers. First, while I told myself that the fact that everyone on the Internet was going to be seeing and judging me from what I put in mouth wasn’t going to …
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First – If you’ve ever commented on my site, you’ll notice I use a plug-in widget called Intense Debate. It’s better than Blogger’s native commenting system (allows for threading, e-mail replies, IP tracking etc.) but it’s also terribly buggy. It’ll work perfectly for months and then out of the blue go haywire and eat a …
Read more “Rejecting Food Without Being Rude [Plus a note on commenting]”
When bad cookies happen to good cartoons. (Nobody saw anything wrong with this before it went to production? Really??) Cookies happen. It’s the holidays. I know there are some of you that will completely abstain from the sugary fare – I commend you; I did the no-sugar Experiment for 90 days over Halloween, Thanksgiving and …
Read more “Cookie Detox: Using Food Combining to Beat Sugar Swings”
Katy Perry may have thought that she liked kissing a girl because of her soft lips (or because it got her attention from men who like to watch two girls kiss thereby relinquishing the power of her sexuality for the voyeuristic enjoyment of others) but it turns out there may have been another reason the …
Cartoon Credit: The inimitable XKCD. Woman #1, to me: Girl, you look good! Got rid of all that baby weight! But don’t you lose anymore ’cause you’re right on the edge of scary skinny, know what I mean? Woman #2, also to me: Oh you are over that edge, eat a sandwich already! Woman #3: …
