the secret language of food and a simpering need for approval

[rm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/fashion/09STEAK.html
Is the life of a woman really such constant mandatory neurosis even if that neurosis is about not seeming neurotic?

“Everyone wants to be the girl who drinks the beer and eats the steak and looks like Kate Hudson,” Ms. Crosley, 28, said.

Actually, no, everyone isn't. And then there's this:

Of course, there are always those rare women who order what they want and to heck with what a man might think.

Saehee Hwang, 30, a production director at Artnet.com, found herself out with friends at DuMont restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when she started feeling attracted to a new guy in the group. She said she had wanted to order a burger, but started having second thoughts. “I didn’t want to appear too much of a carnivore,” she said. “It might be off-putting.”

But then she decided she should not change her order to fit a preconceived idea of what a man might want. She ordered the house specialty, a half-pound of beef on a toasted brioche bun with Gruyère cheese. “We started dating afterward,” Ms. Hwang said. “And he told me he liked the fact that I ordered the burger.”

I mean, really, did you know you were buying your freedom with every second of every day you actually choose to do something for yourself? How shocking!

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

I ate veal three times a week growing up, because that's what my mother cooked. I eat it pretty rarely now, but dude, I would do eat veal with you!

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Someday we'll have to find an old-school Italian or French place for good veal. I have it sometimes when I'm dining out with my parents, but that's about it.

My mom sometimes made "faux veal" out of turkey cutlets, when veal was too expensive.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oh veal is so delicious! Mmm. The cuter the animal, the more tasty it is!

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

So sad but so true! (Piggies, lambies, etc).