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Guest Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nations leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image. She is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat and The Self-Love Revolution, and hosts the podcast Rebel Eaters Club. Transcript Lily Percy, host: Hello, fellow movie fans. I’m Lily Percy, and I’ll be your guide this week as I talk with Virgie Tovar about the movie that changed her — Real Women Have Curves. If you haven’t seen it, don�...

Andria Derstine of Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum shares some of her favorite local dining choices: Five for Friday Updated Mar 03, 2021; Posted Feb 18, 2021 Andria Derstine has been the Allen Memorial Art Museums director since 2012. (Photographer: Tanya Rosen Jones - photo courtesy Allen Memorial Art Museum) Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio - This week’s Five for Friday entry comes courtesy of Andria Derstine, Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (87 North Main St., Oberlin). De...

Maria Guarnaschelli, book editor who changed what we cook, dies at 79 By Julia Moskin New York Times,Updated February 13, 2021, 5:59 p.m. Email to a Friend Maria Guarnaschelli posed for a photo while she was overseeing a major revision of the best-selling “Joy of Cooking,” in New York in 1997.JAMES ESTRIN/NYT Maria Guarnaschelli, a formidable book editor who helped transform American cooking from a domestic chore to a cultural touchstone, and who presided over a major revision of the ...

Copy shortlink: Minnesota Wild Rice Soup "Wild rice soup has surely earned its place as Minnesotas unofficial-but-should-be-official dish," writes Rick Nelson in 2019. "Especially since its basically a wild rice hot dish, and nothing is more quintessentially Minnesotan than that." Find the recipe here. African Peanut Soup "Anyone who enjoys Thai peanut sauce will love this addictively good soup," writes Meredith Deeds in 2013. "For a vegetarian version, substitute vegeta...

Selfie, 2020. (Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York) Critics are not required to be right, merely (as Donald Judd said of artworks) interesting. But part of what makes criticism of new art potentially interesting is that it is, in part, a gaze into the future. Remember Clement Greenberg in The Nation in 1946 predicting of Jackson Pollock’s work, “In the course of time, this ugliness will become a new standard of beauty,” and two years later, venturing that one of the same artist’...

Every year about this time, Vince Hayward, CEO and fourth-generation owner of L.H. Hayward & Co., gives out bags of red beans and green split peas. The 95-year-old Louisiana company, based just outside New Orleans in Harahan, is best known for its Camellia Brand beans.  “We’re selling black-eyed peas right now,” Hayward said. “This year, people don’t want to miss their black-eyed peas. We need all the luck we can get.” He laughed. This time of year is always bus...

Outlook Traveller SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE Prep better while listening to some interesting food podcasts, Home > Explore > Story > The Top 10 Food Podcasts of 2020 In a year that sent us all marching into the kitchens banging our thalis, food podcasts came into their own. Here are our top ten. If you’re a gastronomy aficionado, the prospect of listening to a food podcast could be quite counterintuitive at first. Isn’t food supposed to appeal to every sense but hearing? Well, right, but doesn�...

Crysta Henthorne / KCUR Originally published on January 15, 2021 2:33 pm After months of dire predictions about the long-term impact of COVID-19 on Kansas City restaurants, the last few weeks have been brutal. Most of us are processing the news through a flurry of Facebook posts from favorite establishments announcing theyre shutting their doors for good. The bad news always begins the same way: "It is with a heavy heart..." — the online equivalent of, you might want to sit down for t...