Word: vanillaism
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...food stores. Then there was the line of breakfast cereals from Zoe Foods, launched in Massachusetts last year by a woman who wanted to make granola for women like her menopausal mom. In January, General Mills climbed on board, introducing Harmony cereal with soy protein, folic acid and a vanilla-almond-oat flavor that rated high in female focus groups. And this fall Quaker will roll out its Nutrition for Women oatmeal, which features extra calcium and iron and a feminized lavender backdrop behind the trademark white-haired Quaker...
...food stores. Then there was the line of breakfast cereals from Zoe Foods, launched in Massachusetts last year by a woman who wanted to make granola for women like her menopausal mom. In January, General Mills climbed on board, introducing Harmony cereal with soy protein, folic acid and a vanilla-almond-oat flavor that rated high in female focus groups. And this fall Quaker will roll out its Nutrition for Women oatmeal, which features extra calcium and iron and a feminized lavender backdrop behind the trademark white-haired Quaker...
When it comes to biopics loosely based on the lives of white rappers, the bar is set fairly low. (Perhaps you recall 1991's tour de force Cool as Ice, starring Vanilla Ice, Naomi Campbell and Family Ties' Michael Gross?) This is good news for EMINEM, who will enter the white-rapper bio genre with a film of his own, to start shooting later this year. CURTIS HANSON (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) has signed on to direct. "I saw here an opportunity to make a serious movie about the emotional struggles of contemporary adolescents in this country," says Hanson...
...both parents deceased, Kathy Borkowski, now living in Madison, Wis., took charge of her three younger siblings, ages 9 to 14. John, the youngest, was on dinner duty one night, when there was no milk for the mashed potatoes. He quickly solved the problem by melting a cup of vanilla ice cream. "I figured they were both dairy and the right color!" he explains...
...make sure that it wasn't a tongue-in-cheek take on old stereotypes of African Americans and Caucasians [ESSAY, March 26]. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Funderburg actually attributed her "love of watermelon, fried foods" to her African-American ancestry and her "taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored" to her Caucasian side. Why would she connect such hackneyed, trite and superficial traits to her beautiful heritage? What about a strong sense of pride, survival or reflection? A person with the benefit of two amazing cultural heritages should describe the experience without using generalizations that are the staple...