OK. So it’s the time when all the old fruitcake jokes are trotted out. Journalists desperate for Christmas stories repeat Johnny Carson’s quip. “There is only one fruitcake in the…
Read moreReview of Cuisine and Empire in the Times Literary Supplement
I was delighted today to have this review of Cuisine and Empire in the Times Literary Supplement by Peter Thonemann, a classicist at Oxford. Just scroll down to the middle…
Read moreHunger is best sauce. Or the republican culinary tradition
If you google “hunger is the best sauce,” you’ll come across lots of variants (pickle, spice) as well as lots of attributions from Socrates to Cicero to Cervantes. It’s a…
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