Taste as a Measure of Man.* Please No.
The use of taste to take the measure of others swung completely out of control on Twitter in the last couple of days. For those of you wise enough not…
Read moreMaida Heatter and Molly O’Neill, RIP.
Two fine food writers, each of them important to me in very different ways, have died in the past few months. What better way to remember them than by turning…
Read moreVariety, Discrimination, and Mexican Breads
For a long time I’ve been interested in how perceptions of variety in food have shifted as countries have become more prosperous. In particular, variety comes to be seen as…
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