Thinking about the Land 2: A Perfect Summer Evening
In my earlier post, I said that I wanted to give the farmers’ perspective on the mid-twentieth century British movement now seen as the origin of organic farming. Now I…
Read moreMy Mother Never Had to Go Grocery Shopping
My story about how my mother and many others of her generation found cooking to be thankless and unremitting labor is consistently one of my most popular posts. Where my…
Read moreUS Foreign Policy, the Flaky Flatbread Called Parotta, and Where Does Asafoetida Fit?
Back to Malabar Parotta, which as I said in my last post was new to me but which I learn is thriving as a street food and Indian processed food. …
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