I think that, when left to my own devices and without work to distract me, I revert back to my natural state of Very Angry Feminist.

This is another "gendered food" failure.

Things to do when you are ill No. 47 - Complain to Marks and Spencers

I've been watching a lot of TV. That includes adverts. The current one working it's way up my nose is this ( Read more... )

So, I'm still sick and signed off work lest I give my coworkers Plague or whatever it is that I'vegot (tests tomorrow).

I'm poking the internet for entertainment and got this, with all due nods to steve_c , article on sexism in food products, particular the Man Eat Meat trope.

Hanne Blank has a go at the food facists

I have only just discovered Hanne Blank ( Read more... )

There's something to be said about having only one day off a week - it makes doing nothing a bit more special. I've got a certain viewpoint on doing nothing - I'm very bad at it. I need to have at least two or three things happening at the same time. They don't have to be big things - I can read a book, listen to the radio and occasionally stir a ( Read more... )

Props to my mate Hugh over at Kamikaze Cookery for this one. PETA have decided in their infinite wisdom that it would be a really, really good idea if we renamed fish Sea Kittens. Because by giving our scaley little aquatic buddies a cutsey pie name then folk might not want to eat them.

Seriously.

No, seriously. Here, look at the website. No, it's ( Read more... )

McDonalds to be sole food sponsor of Olmypics

Seriously?

Now, I hate the Olmypics as much as the next person whose salary relies on the Arts Council not being raped to death by our nation's sports fetish (why is it that the arts somehow has to prove itself as valuable - financial or socially or otherwise but sport is considered de-facto A Good Thing ( Read more... )

Only in this crazily sanitised, risk-free bubble we have created in the West would we tolerate such a burden, as symbolised by the lunacy of avocados parcelled up in stiff plastic pouches like Easter eggs. We have lost all wisdom, all sense of touch or smell or fear or recognition. Like fruit and vegetables, human beings are shrink-wrapped, vacuum- ( Read more... )

Food related news this time. A report by the Food Standards Agency indicates that organic produce is no better, nutritionally speaking, than non-organic produce. The report can be viewed on their website.

There has been something of a brou-ha-ha over this report, because various bodies, including the Soil Association, seem to think that the FSA is ( Read more... )

Feeling a lot better, just doing that more difficult illness thing of "rest".

So, in the spirit of restfullness I'm pottering about the house doing bits and bobs. Like uploading photos to Flickr. Now, the only thing I really take photos of is food I've cooked, so my Flickr account is a little specific. kneeshooter was horrified when I told him that I'd got an ( Read more... )

Had a fantastic weekend - one of those where you are still grinning on Monday. Which I am. Went to mossman 's BBQ and house party on the Friday, which was super-chilled, although I did drink enough fizzy-pop to belt out lead vocals on Rock Band and murdered a couple of numbers. Amused by the fact that there was shared-brain syndrome over what to bring, ( Read more... )

Went to meet a friend for tapas at Camino in King's Cross, which was lovely. It's in Regent's Quarter, a converted warehouse space just round the corner from the train station. We sat outside at tables made from old sherry barrels, and I supped chilled sherry, nibbled on tasty pimientos de padron, empandillas made from spicy pumpkin, chorizo and ( Read more... )