On My Mind: The Pastoral Tradition and Its Problems
I am constantly amazed by the staying power of the pastoral tradition that imagines the country as a place where carefree shepherds tend their flocks in an idyllic landscape. The…
Read moreThe Culinary Newsletter’s Golden Age 1980-2000
What glorious decades the 1980s and 1990s were for those of us English speakers with an intellectual interest in food. What fascinated us was the history of food, the food…
Read moreThe Flowering of Flour 14,000 Years Ago
“Bread-like” foodstuffs were being made about 14,000 years ago, well before farming was well established. This according to a paper just published by Amaia Arranz-Otaegui and colleagues in a paper…
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