Bread, Beef and Civilization.
Published February 1, 2010 by Rachel Laudan
I’ll be talking about the global culinary crisis between 1880 and 1914 under that title in a history of science seminar offered in the history department of the University of Texas at 12 on Friday this week. If you are in Austin and are interested let me know, and I will send details.
Meanwhile thanks for your patience everyone. It’s been a rough month or so but with luck I am back to blogging.
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Wish I could be there. Good luck.
Nice to have you back!
Thanks Jeremy. And several posts on cous cous are in the works.
Wasn’t there a major energy crisis about those years? too?
You mean energy in general, not food energy? Not really because coal-fired steam power is abundant and coal gas and electricity are also surging. But it is true that a lot of very interesting things happen in those few decades. Particularly relevant for my thesis is the rapid globalization of the world’s and massive migration, both of which then slow down.