A year since my book, Cuisine and Empire came out. It’s been busy, it’s been fun, I’ve made so many new friends, so many good acquaintances, and scales have dropped…
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What About Food Heritage?
Last week I attended a conference entitled Food: Heritage, Hybridity and Locality hosted by the American Studies Department at Brown University. It was a small conference, always the best, with…
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About a hundred years ago Romualdo García was the photographer of choice in Guanajuato [GWAN-A-WHA-TOE], a wealthy mining town on the high central plateau of Mexico. As these images…
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