Heavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland
In this long post (you’ve been warned), I’m going to try to imagine the potato cuisine of the Irish poor in the century before the Great Famine of 1845-52. In…
Read moreMy Great Grandmother’s Industrially Processed Food
Warnings not to eat anything your grandmother (or great grandmother or great-great grandmother) would not recognize as food have echoed around the web since Michael Pollan first promoted this rule…
Read moreThe Grain Chain
A couple of weeks ago I was in Omaha, Nebraska. In the perfect fall weather, I drove across the Missouri. In the twin town of Council Bluffs, Iowa, I lingered…
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