Review 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…
Read moreThanksgiving, Or How To Eat American Politics
I’m delighted to have a piece”Thanksgiving, or how to eat American politics,” in the Ideas section of Sunday’s Boston Globe. On Thursday, almost nine out of ten Americans will gather…
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