The Indispensable Culinary Middlemen and Women
“I think we’ll use your handout in our staff training sessions,” said one of Rick Bayless’ team, without so much as a “by your leave.” Or a “may we?” “Hmm,”…
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.…
Read moreThe Future of Food at the James Beard Foundation
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to attend the 2015 Future of Food Conference that the James Beard Foundation puts on in New York. I was uncertain whether to…
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