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…
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Chris Blattman’s syllabus for his course at Yale. The comments are useful too.
Read moreWhat to Do about the Food of the Poor: Mexico City 1940s and 50s
Sandra Aguilar, a Mexican friend who is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, just sent me a paper she published this month in The Americas called “Cooking Modernity:…
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