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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, Food Is Good To Think With, on the site The Vexed Vegan 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Well, I admit it. This is a selfish blog. But I love both anthropology (thanks, Claude Levi-Strauss for today’s blog title!) and the internet for their willingness, as media, to allow for the author’s personal […] -
Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, Citizen Eater, on the site The Vexed Vegan 1 month, 1 week ago
I happened across a roundup of regionally significant sandwiches on bon appetit the other day and, although I am not a big sandwich eater, I found myself riveted. I wasn’t particularly interested in the sandwiches […] -
Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, Your Fridge, Your Self, on the site The Vexed Vegan 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Stephanie de Rouge - a French photographer based in New York is on a self-proclaimed quest for intimate images. Like many photographers, she is eager to get at the “truth” of her subject, to probe beyond how […] -
Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, But, what about “refined” fat?, on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months ago
“The hysterical crusade against fat has become a veritable witch hunt. With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s ban on supersize sodas (now temporarily thwarted) and the first lady’s campaign to push leaves […]
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, The Nutritional is Political (But Maybe Not How You Think…), on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months ago
I tell people that I’m a political vegan– my choices are determined by my commitment to environmentalism, human rights and labor laws and not by sentimentality. But a recent New York Times article has me thinking […] -
Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, Allan Savory on Using Livestock to Address Desertification, on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months ago
This TED talk from biologist/environmental/”holistic manager” Allan Savory addresses the growing problem of desertification of grassland ecosystems by suggesting a radical solution– using “livestock mimicking […]
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, The Cleanse (Femininity, Detox Diets, and the Myth of Purity), on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months ago
Last week, when writing about extremism and dietary identities, I linked to the popular detox program called “Clean.” I returned to the site for some further research and was suddenly struck by the promotional […] -
Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, A Progressive Movement for Conservation, on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months, 3 weeks ago
What do we mean when we talk about conservation? Are we speaking about values? resources? biodiversity? cultural norms?Often, I find that the language about food (and specifically, farming) turns into language […]
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, The Sexual Politics of Meat, on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Carol Adams’ early 1990s work, The Sexual Politics of Meat, addresses the historical relationship between meat-eating and the oppression of women, by locating both within in a patriarchal system in which […]
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, Feegan the Vegan, on the site The Vexed Vegan 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Feegan the Vegan in a recent episode of South Park demonstrating, yet again, the dominant media representation of vegans as effeminate, precious, and twee.
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, The Hard-working Farmers of America and the Elitists Who Eat Their Food, on the site The Vexed Vegan 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I don’t think anyone will be too shocked by my admission that I was really only watching the Superbowl for Beyonce. However, as I wandered in and out of the living room to chat with the friends that had come over […]
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new post, Food as Identity, on the site The Vexed Vegan: Food Choices as Life Choices 3 months, 4 weeks ago
When I first tell people that I’m vegan, I often feel like I’m coming out. I get a bit uncomfortable, hedging my statements with an insistence that I’m not one of those annoyingly sanctimonious vegans, that my […] -
Mariah Gruner created the site The Vexed Vegan: Food Choices as Life Choices 4 months ago
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new blog post: Summer and Winter Squash 1 year, 9 months ago
Anyone who has seen our garden recently has also seen a whole mess of squash. Our plants are running wild! and I’ve been feasting on the outcome. We seem to have many varieties of squash (one which was identified as Costata Romanesca squash by Suzanne in a previous post) and I’ve been pretty mystified by [...]
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Mariah Gruner wrote a new blog post: Post-Workday Eats 1 year, 11 months ago
After an afternoon of moving dirt and cinder blocks for the new shed, I picked some collard greens from the garden for a dinner treat. Greens in hand, I headed home to dream up something delicious. I’d made a batch of cashew cheese that morning, so I decided to make pizza. My farmer’s market hauls this [...]
