Cooking in a Bedsitter
I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…
Read more22 Uses for the “Commons” in Guanajuato, Mexico
El cerro (the hill) began a hundred yards or so above the street where I lived for ten years in the city of Guanajuato, capital of the state of Guanajuato. …
Read moreFood in World History: A 1995 Course at the University of Hawaii
Why I decided to teach food in world history It’s hard to remember that just twenty five years ago food was not considered a worthy academic subject, so it was…
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