Culinary Philosophy: Pretentious or What?

I use the phrase “culinary philosophy” quite a bit, both in my book, Cuisine and Empire, and when I am giving talks. A month or so ago, a fellow food…
Read moreI use the phrase “culinary philosophy” quite a bit, both in my book, Cuisine and Empire, and when I am giving talks. A month or so ago, a fellow food…
Read moreIt is no surprise that when the anthropologist Sidney Mintz died on December 26th, obituaries flooded the media. I particularly liked this essay by a former graduate student, Sarah Hill.…