Foodways and Ways of Talking about Food
If you have any interest in food studies or food history in the United States, you will find the term “foodways” popping up all over the place. There are books…
Read moreWhy did our ancestors prefer white bread to wholegrains?
A couple of days ago, a reader contacted me to ask me to clarify my post on why our ancestors preferred white bread. I checked the post. It’s been consistently one…
Read moreHeavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland
In this long post (you’ve been warned), I’m going to try to imagine the potato cuisine of the Irish poor in the century before the Great Famine of 1845-52. In…
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