The other night, I was watching one of the many, many cooking-based shows currently broadcast, wall-to-wall and round-the-clock, on television. A group of people were cooking for another group of people – I forget why – and, as is often the case in these jeopardy-seeking productions, something went a bit wrong. A tray of ...
Picky eating could soon be added to a medically recognized list of mental illnesses and eating disorders. This kind of eating disorder isn’t as simple as not eating your broccoli. This is for people whose eating habits interfere with having a functional life. For some, “avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder” (ARFID) comes from a fear of ...
I like a good curry. There are some very good curry restaurants in London, and I miss them here on my soggy and culinarily reduced island. But, while I enjoy, as I say, a good old blowout with a curry, they, to borrow a phrase from middle England, don’t really like me very much. Yes, ...
Lately it’s starting to feel like we’re on the brink of a gender neutral revolution. Some passport applications are no longer gender-specific. At Egalia, a Swedish preschool, “him” and “her” don’t exist. One couple caused an uproar by raising a genderless child, and even boys wear pink nail polish. But it seems the trend hasn’t ...
Some say men think about sex every 52 seconds, others predict it’s closer to every seven. But just how often do women’s minds wander to sex, and is it our number one concern? Apparently not. A new study reveals more than 50 percent of women think more often about food than they do about sex. ...
Usually a good night out involves talking, laughing, and let’s not forget eating. So as to not spoil a good night, you stuff your face and then when you get home you face the guilt. Unfortunately, a great number of women are pigging out in public and starving in private. Just like anorexics and momorexics, ...
We already know Americans eat too much, but why do we have to hear about it over and over? We’re consumed with what foods make us fat, creating a toxic relationship with food. Just today I learned that diet soda leads to weight gain and consuming too many snacks leads to an expanding waistline. I ...
Women have been trying to bring Barbie to life for many years. They look at her big boobs, small waist and long blond hair and think that maybe they could look like that too. Whether they have to starve themselves or become workout addicts, the price tag is irrelevant. Galia Slayen has given a strong ...
I just devour books, so when I got to the end of the pile on my bedside table, it seemed natural to pick up a cookbook. Reading a cookbook in bed feels decadently obscene. I feel the need to assure you that I have never done it before, although this does feel like the appropriate ...
People have been using aphrodisiacs to improve their sex lives for centuries, but have you ever wondered what actually works and what’s an old wives’ tale? Researchers in Canada have looked into what works in hopes to find the truth. So what did they find? Ginseng, saffron, and yohimbine (a natural chemical from yohimbe trees ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
