A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
You’ve probably seen some of the few photos that have filtered out of the private annual congressional White House picnic that took place last Thursday.
Barack Obama invited Alan Wong from Hawaii to prepare a Hawaiian luau, strewing the White House grounds with straw huts and tiki lamps.
When I saw these photos, a little shiver went [...]
Read: How to Create a Regional Cuisine: The Luau and French Regional Cuisine
Last year I wrote a series of posts on servants in the kitchen. A reader asked me to put them together, so here goes.
1. Lest We Forget: Servants in Culinary History
Why we tend to forget servants and who servants were
2 Mistress and Servant Go to Cooking Class
How the mistress learned to supervise the cook and [...]
That phrase (taken from Tana Butler’s comment a week or so ago), or something close to it, has become one of the slogans that food activists use to suggest that large scale modern livestock farming is a disaster.
And it does sound pretty horrid, doesn’t it? We wouldn’t want to stand in our feces and urine. [...]
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