Dana McMahan - xoJane

Dispatches From The Foie Gras Wars -- Why Fatty Duck Liver Isn't the Devil

Dana McMahan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:17:12 -0400

The more we know about our food system, the more we are called into complex choices. It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees. - Barbara Kingsolver in "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"

I'm a Food Writer and I'm Too Lazy to Cook

Dana McMahan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:00:24 -0400

I subscribe to a home meal delivery program he called a CSM (Community Supported Meals -- think CSA, but instead of random produce you get cooked meals).

So You Want To Be A Weightlifter? What You Need To Know To Get Started

Dana McMahan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:00:24 -0400

Let’s stage a coup of weight rooms across the country, tell the magazines and their five-pound weight routines where they can go, and get serious about heavy lifting!

Competitive PowerLifter Secrets: What The Diet Industry Doesn't Want You To Know About Weights

Dana McMahan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:02:30 -0400

If girls started getting under the bar with some serious weight, the market for diet books, gadgets, pills, food-like products, exercise gear, Spanxx, and so-called health/fitness magazines might just entropy.

A Day In the LIfe of a Food Writer

Dana McMahan — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:00:40 -0400

If I told you I had to eat at 10 restaurants in 24 hours once researching a guidebook, or that I had to judge a dessert contest and partake in 40 varieties of sweets, you’d play your tiny violin, wouldn’t you?