In Praise of Bland Food
7am. Facebook. A post pops up on how to make a chocolate-covered bacon shot glass for your whiskey. I must have missed this phenomenon because when I googled “chocolate-covered bacon…
Read moreWas the Agricultural Revolution a Terrible Mistake? Not If You Take Food Processing Into Account
The agriculture-as disaster theory rests, at least in part, on ignoring the work involved importance of processing and cooking food
Read moreIn Memoriam Sidney Mintz
It is no surprise that when the anthropologist Sidney Mintz died on December 26th, obituaries flooded the media. I particularly liked this essay by a former graduate student, Sarah Hill.…
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