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2 months ago | 
lrb.co.uk | Nicola Twilley |Bee Wilson
Fridges are boxes in which we put food and forget about it. That is both their wonder and their defect. The Italian sociologist Girolamo Sineri claimed that the act of preserving food is ‘anxiety in its purest form’.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Bee Wilson
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Bee Wilson
Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian RecipesMeera Sodha, Fig TreeRelief was the first emotion I felt on opening this book. Greed was the second. Dinner – Meera Sodha’s fourth recipe collection – opts out of the stress of hosting, focusing instead on the satisfaction of making one easy but delicious vegan or vegetarian dish for your evening meal. Finding herself in a state of overwhelm, Sodha realised she needed to scale down her idea of what cooking should be.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Bee Wilson
Are the focused demands of the writing life compatible with the patient work of cooking? Some of the writers collected in Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authors’ Favourite Recipes freely admit to being “bad cookers”, as Beryl Bainbridge puts it, quoting her children.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Bee Wilson
Judging from Miss Moneypenny in the Bond movies, you might think that the main purpose of women working at MI6 in the mid-20th century was to give secret agents someone to flirt with in between meetings. Connery, Lazenby and Moore all came and went, but Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny, the private secretary of M, the head of MI6, remained faithfully at her desk, always looking glamorous but demure. Maxwell’s involvement in the series stretched all the way from Dr No in 1962 to A View to a Kill in 1985.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Jennifer Wright |Bee Wilson
‘Things being as they are,’ the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote in her 1971 essay ‘A Defence of Abortion’, two years before Roe v. Wade, ‘there isn’t much a woman can safely do to abort herself. So the question asked is what a third party may do.’ By third parties, Thomson meant abortionists.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mindbodygreen.com | Bee Wilson
October 16, 2024We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. “It’s not weird and I like it,” was my youngest son Leo’s final judgement when we ate this tossed with spaghetti. You would have to know the boy to understand what high praise this is.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Dorothy Spooner |Bee Wilson |Kay Allinson |Olia Hercules
LoveReading Says I adored school dinners. No, really. Ok, maybe not the semolina with jam. But the rest I loved. The fish Fridays. The chocolate sponge and chocolate custard. My friend Teresa and I were even known to be brandishing a sign saying "leftovers here" on the very special days. Oh to have that sort of metabolism today. Well this book is a terrific trip down memory lane, where you'll find an array of recipes that will fling you back a few decades.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Bee Wilson
This episode is a chapter from Complicated Women by Bee Wilson, a new LRB audiobook, based on pieces first published in the London Review of Books. Wilson explores the lives of ten figures, from Lola Montez to Vivienne Westwood, who challenged the limitations imposed on women in dramatically different ways. In this free chapter, she describes the ways that Edith Piaf’s life and art embodied the needs of her public, and how she became a symbol of postwar French resilience.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Charles Holland |Max Crosbie-Jones |Michael Delgado |Bee Wilson
Golden Boy goes home – but where is that, exactly? The Met’s return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in Cambodia shows the difficulty of recovering the origins of looted objectsComparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom
