Beauty and ketchup

-In the guise of a beauty post, here's an interesting career trajectory narrative. What privilege can do, and what's required of th...

Euphemistic Mediterranean couscous

If you're a food writer, especially one with a Jewish name, and you want to write about Israel, be sure to provide a thorough disclaimer...

The end of dieting

Just now, I overheard a woman telling someone how her husband had lost a great deal of weight. Pressed on which diet he'd used, she expl...

Insensitivity

A while back, I suggested that our new societal respect for justified dietary restrictions has lessened our tolerance for unjustified  ones...

Adventures in mildly less provincial Mid-Atlantic-ness

Third trip to Philadelphia since the move, first with the "new" car. The best visit thus far. We started out at the Headhouse Farm...

A sensitive subject

When I read about the German court that ruled against circumcision for religious reasons (i.e. as practiced by Muslims and Jews), I confess...

Brevity

To the critics of Anne-Marie Slaughter's very-long-but-who-am-I-to-talk * manifesto : she's not claiming to tell the story of strugg...