The Game of Thrones, The Store of Grain, and the Fate of Planet Earth
Not enough food in the castle? What’s to be done? A friend sent me a link to a mashable discussion of food shortages as threats to whole communities in…
Read moreCreating Flavor in the Home Kitchen: A Quick Historical Overview of the Last Half Century
Since today is the official publication date of The Art of Flavor by Daniel Patterson and Mandy Aftel, which I have already written about here, it seemed a good moment to put…
Read moreReading and Pondering: Food for Crossing the Gobi Desert in the 1920s
What did travelers in the Gobi Desert eat on days when they had a thirty-mile trek from one oasis to the next? Four bowls of undercooked noodles with crushed garlic…
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