Assorted Links
Every few weeks on this http://www.cookbook-l.com/ Lillian Clark, of Louis and Clark booksellers, posts a thematic, ruminative listing of some of the cookbooks she has for sale. Mainly American, some European, always interesting.
http://www.vub.ac.be/FOST/fost_in_english/ is the website of the Social and Cultural Studies of Food group at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels.
And http://www.iehca.eu/home.htm is the site of the European Institute of History and Cultures of Alimentacion, to give a free translation.
Coming soon. That question of the earliest uses of cacao revisited. I have my doubts.

- Was Pulp Booze the First Use of Cacao? An Intriguing Hypothesis
- Was Pulp Booze the First Cacao Beverage? Why I’m Doubtful