Hi sweet friends!
I’d count this as a good week as there was sweet quality time with girlfriends AND I was in a bathing suit AND I dodged a sunburn. In terms of summer happenings, we can count this one as a win.
In the next few days I have the distinct pleasure of sharing my New Orleans kitchen with our girl Cara Nicoletti to make some truly indulgent summer sausage and a Baked Alaska dessert that we’re going to light all the way on fire. What could go wrong? Well, if we buy a kiddie pool, basically nothing.
I hope this week finds you summering well. Why not now, you know?
Here’s the offering this week. Take some time:
• I’m interested in your thoughts on this: Women’s Media Is A Scam. (The New Republic)
• Those pesky, sticky gender roles: When Wives Earn More Than Husbands, Neither Like to Admit It. (New York Times)
• We lost a thoughtful one: Los Angeles Restaurant Critic Jonathan Gold Dies at 57. (Los Angeles Times)
• I’m here for this bit of balance: The Vindication of Cheese, Butter, and Full-Fat Milk. (The Atlantic)
• Let’s check in on our Summer Bucket List! I’m in the thick of it… but still no book proposal in sight. Working on it!! (Actually I’m not, but I’m trying.) Also, it’s not too late to make one if you haven’t yet! (Joy the Baker)
• Or you could just chill on all the list making and have a very mellow summer (why didn’t I get this memo sooner?): It’s Not Your Fault If You Can’t Get Anything Done in the Summer.
• Related to all this talk of summer – JOMO (joy of missing out): How to Make This the Summer of Missing Out. (New York Times)
• Something I wouldn’t want you to miss out on: Very Easy Peanut Butter Banana Bonbons. (Joy the Baker)
• I would like a pat on the back for installing my very own Ring Doorbell on my house this week and subsequently obsessing over watching people ride their bikes by my house on the feed. Also… I was telling a dude in my yoga teacher training about my new fancy doorbell and he boasted that he falls asleep at night with his doors unlocked so this doorbell would be more than he needs. I suppose a lot of dudes don’t worry about things like basic safety. Wow what a privilege? OK. (Amazon)
• Our friend The Candid Appetite has a new sweet show on Instagram called Married and Hungry and I think you should watch it! (Instagram)
• Make, bake, and eat in the pan brownies! Thanks, Food52!
• My favorite summer dress. It’s just about all I wear. (Pyne and Smith)
• There are still a few spots left for our Labor Day BakeAway Weekend in New Orleans! We’ll be baking, caking, photographing, styling, and drinking a lot of champagne! (The BakeAway Nola)
• Here’s a very sweet moment to take in: The Dog Photographers of the Year. (Digg)
That’s all for today, my friends!
My love to you.
xo Joy
Taste of France
Sunday is everything just because of your posts.
Re summer brain block, I live in the south of France, where it gets hot (but not horribly–upper 80s/low 90s) but not humid and nobody has air conditioning because electricity costs an arm and a leg. I try to do the physical things in the morning and then retreat to my dark computer cave in the afternoon, but even with a fan I have a hard time to focus like I can when it’s cooler. Not to mention that from time to time my computer says, “it’s too hot” and just shuts down. But then it’s also too hot to, say, dig big rocks out of my garden. What to do? Sleep in the afternoons, and stay up all night, like the Spanish? I am an early to bed, early to rise girl. So difficult! And the worst is that school here goes through the first week of July! The poor kids doing their tests to get out of high school when it’s 93 degrees.
Amanda
The article on women’s media is interesting, I think it’s a little more complicated than they make it to be, but it the sneaked-in ads do get a little tiring on “women’s lifestyle” sites.
Melanie
I’m happy to say my partner is not weird about my making way more than him. And I knew something weird was up with refinary29. The milk article has been chastised as inaccurate and misleading though – science is almost unanimous on saturated fats being a net negative – just another example of food research confusion and things being too good to be true.
Claire, UK
Just read that article about being dumber in summer. There seems to be a pretty big confounding factor: Are the students living in accommodation with AC otherwise more privileged? Are they from higher socioeconomic groups with expensive educational backgrounds? Are their parents paying for them to attend college/their accommodation, where the students in non-AC accommodation are also working two jobs to support themselves? Is the non-AC accommodation otherwise less comfortable/noisier/a longer commute from campus (all of which might contribute to lower test scores)? Surely a better study would look at the SAME students during a heatwave versus a normal summer with no heatwave, or in summer versus autumn (where there would still be confounding factors no doubt, but not the socioeconomic ones). It’s also a very small study.
Sara
I adore that dress! I’m loving linen clothing lately.
Sara | http://www.saraspoke.com
Liz
My thoughts on the wives with a higher income article, this is a perfect example describing the proclivity of a relationship. 1. Both should be proud of her income. 2. My dad said who cares if your mom makes more than I do. Good for her. 3. Last 3 men I’ve dated bragged about my type of employment and that I actually did make more than they did. I heard it from all their friends all the time. lol
Lori
I always enjoy your Sunday posts :)
Nancy k
Oh my gosh, your comment about your new doorbell was a hoot. I have thought of installing one but my front door does not face the street. The view I would get ,for casual watching, would be the wall of the porch just across from the door. ..no fun.
As always, your musig were very enjoyable and informativeand in the case of the dog photos, so sweet.
Ramona
I was just thinking about the difference in personal safety issues between men and women when I had a debate in my head over whether i should/and/or how to manage bringing a new-to-me repairman into my basement to discuss an issue. Bet your dude wouldn’t have worried about that either. But I did.
Mary
Where I live, crime is very low and safety is high. For me, that is the arena of privilege (vs gender being the arena of privilege). But a lot of people here are nervous about crime and safety anyway, based on their general anxiety, not on the data. I don’t lock the doors in my house or car even when I leave either/both for days at a time. I encourage people here to pay attention to data and experience and only be nervous and/or security-conscious when its warranted. When we can trust our community, I hope that we will.
Ellen
“I suppose a lot of dudes don’t worry about things like basic safety. Wow what a privilege? OK.” LOL, preach!
Also love that Pyne & Smith dress… *pines*
Rena
Oh, a sunburn! I see it’s summer ??
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
http://www.dressedwithsoul.com
Earthling
I loved that Refinery29 post – I have been wanting someone to examine these sketchy articles closer.
However, I did cringe at seeing the dairy post. Bluntness alert: Cow (or other animal) dairy is meant for their own babies… it’s gross, sad, and weird that we drink any animal milk into adulthood. No other animal does that. We take mothers who are meant to be caring for and feeding their babies, and put them in cramped, depressing slots, and plug them into a machine to pump their breasts until they need to be inseminated again. Also, pro-dairy is the stance of team trump (https://newrepublic.com/article/150006/war-soy-milk) and I promise that this industry is nefarious. It has seeped into the FDA/USDA and scientific boards for decades. Dairy is not necessary when you are an adult, and most adults do not need or should not have it (it’s mostly a white/western beverage of choice). I would implore you to remove that link as it is totally harmful to promote dairy as ‘just fine’ for both humans, the environment and the species we’ve decided to be indifferent to.
M
So far I’ve only read the women’s media one–but I’ll get to the others! About that one, I think, in general, women’s media tends to be the scapegoat for everything—too much advertising, not enough advertising (and so then the publication folds), not enough high-quality reporting, too much high-quality reporting when they should “stick to” clothes (the way teen vogue was criticized) and on and on. I’m not saying that there is not a layer of fault to doled out, but do we say the same things about male-marketed media when they promote products and the like? I’m not sure that we do. Part of this is because there is, I believe, more content/websites/magazines geared towards women, but part of it is that people will forever and always think things marketed to men are somehow superior. I’m simplifying this whole argument of course, and using broad strokes, but I think there’s something there. ALSO, I would say that social media, and IG in particular, where things are marketed 24/7 should share a large part of the blame.
Marie at the Lazy W
I had missed this news… you’re in yoga teacher training, how wonderful!! Glad you’re doing summertime your own beautiful way. Love the details. I’m nibbling at my mostly farm centric bucket list and am in heaven. Great reading list this week. Thank you xoxoxo
Ramona
Love your Sunday posts! The women’s media article was interesting, the brownie one sounds delicious and a have to make! Soon! The dog photography was great oh and high fives for your door bell assembly! That’s great! That dress looks like summer, I read just about everything. Are you going to have any baking events this fall? I’m in Massachusetts until after Labor Day but I would love to participate. Have a blessed Sunday!