What’s the True History of Pizza? Consider Argentina
Yes, the title of this post does verge on clickbait. In the popular imagination and in a large number of articles and books, the history of pizza is located firmly…
Read moreThe Mysterious Doña Lola of Argentina
Sitting in front of me I have El Arte de la Mesa by Lola P. de Pietrana, a hefty volume of a thousand pages. And it presents a little culinary…
Read moreNose Cartilage? The Global Trade in Beef
An older but interesting article from the Wall Street Journal about how Brasilian beef carcasses are dismembered for the global trade. Nasal cartilage goes off to Hong Kong for soup,…
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