On My Mind: Islamic Cuisine, Razor Clams, Carbs and More
Just a few items in food history and politics that have caught my attention this week. Anissa Helou‘s magnificent, far-reaching Feast: Food of the Islamic World is out. It’s taut…
Read moreTrade, Trust and Madeira
An age of commerce and civility was how many eighteenth-century thinkers, including the Scots Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson and Frenchmen such as Turgot, saw their own time. Unlike previous…
Read moreIsn’t Farming More Significant than Food Processing for Human History?
Quick Answer: No Hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans lost the ability to do well on a raw diet. From then on they had to cook (here used as…
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