The Anti-Aristocratic Thanksgiving Meal
Here I am with my annual reminder about how unusual American Thanksgiving is as a national meal. As nations were created from the eighteenth century on, all kinds of readily…
Read moreHow to Take a Solo Road Trip When You are 80
This is not my usual kind of posting. Many friends , though, were surprised (horrified?) that at 80 years of age I drove nearly 2000 miles from Lexington, Kentucky to…
Read moreWhy so many foodie institutions fail: or thoughts on the Oxford Symposium and the Southern Foodways Alliance
Every time I poke about on the shelves and in the file drawers of my study, I run across the remains of failed “foodie” institutions, using the foodie here as…
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