The image of a 7 year-old wearing a bra is disturbing to me. Not only is childhood being cut short in the West driven by many factors including media of all sorts, an obsession with the body, with sexualizing everything, the glamorization of violence, etc, etc – you know the deal. Now childhood is being cut short even earlier by means of biology.
Posts Tagged ‘cuisine’
Big girls, beefy hormones
Posted in agriculture, Diets, Farming, Food, In the News, meat, random, tagged agriculture, beef, big girls, childhood obesity, cooking, cuisine, endocrinology, female puberty, food, hormones, hormones in meat, life, meat, milk, nutrition, obesity, organic, organic food, puberty, random on August 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
You can get anything you want
Posted in Food Review, Restaurant Review, Restaurants, tagged American Food, Astoria, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Label Cafe, cuisine, Eating in America, food, Landmarc, life, New York, New York Restaurants, Pomme Cafe, Popovers, random, Tourism, travel, Tribeca, USA, vacation on July 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
New York cuisine proved to be far more interesting than Chicago’s. This is probably because I saw more friends, ate less at my sister’s place, and was generally “on vacation.” Here are the places, some exceptional, some pretty mediocre, that I patronized.
Food for a Happy Soul
Posted in photography, Restaurants, tagged Apple Cider, Avocado, Breakfast, Caprese Salad, cooking, Crepes, cuisine, dinner, food, food photos, Gilad & Daniel, Gilad and Daniel, Guacamole, Israel, Jerome K. Jerome, life, photographs, photography, Pork, random, Restaurants, Saur Kraut, Soul Food, Tel Aviv, Three Men in a Boat, Udon on February 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Red Herring – An Organic Disaster
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coconut milk, cooking, cuisine, food, groceries, grocery budget, grocery store, Japanese food, life, organic, organic food, pickled fish, pickled herring, random, red herring, Thai food, Whole Foods, Wordpress.com on December 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m munching away on some sort of pickled/oiled Dutch red-colored fish with onion slices. In Hebrew the fish is called מטיאס but I have no idea what it is in English. Some sort of red herring? Who knows. The online translator couldn’t tell me. Why am I doing this? I’m starving. And it was [...]
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