Coming to Terms with the Twinkie
A couple of years ago, the media was abuzz with the news that the venerable American industrial snack cake business, Hostess, might meet its demise, and with it the Twinkie, a…
Read moreFood and Back Migration: The Cornish Pasty Plot Thickens
When people move to a new country what changes do they make in their cuisine? And if they move back to their homeland, do they introduce the changed cuisine? Since…
Read morePuzzles about the family farm
On his blog Applied Mythology, Steve Savage has a nice post on farmers in the US and Canada, with graphs showing how their numbers have dwindled and how efficient they…
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