Food Bitch
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer and Editor |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Introduction | I have been chronicling food and eating in American culture for two decades, beginning at the moment when our collective body size careened out of control. In my first book, "Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate, and Fear Food" (1994), I explored our fraught relationship with food, thinking I was reporting on a brief fling with insanity. Instead, I found roots of American Food Madness back in the 19th century (which led to my second book, "The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery"), and I have followed its continuing spiral ever since. Why are we so nuts about food, weight, and body size? What role does the media play? How can we step off the binge-purge treadmill of fast-food and self-hatred, and make peace with our food—and our bodies? I’ve tackled these questions in Elle (a column, “Bodysense,” from 1994-99), O Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Self, Mademoiselle, Allure, Martha Stewart Living, Town & Country, and others (with occasional forays into more arcane topics for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times Magazine). I have also edited at Outside, Savvy, Mademoiselle, and Cosmopolitan, and am currently Deputy Editor at Shape. |