A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
Flappers with bobbed hair in 1920s America were of many ethnicities. Here’s a translation of a song, Las Pelonas, the bobbed hairs, about the flapper Mexican Americans in Texas. “Son flojas pa’l metate.” They have no interest in grinding maize on the grindstone. And who can blame them. As I suggest here and friend Lesley [...]
Yup. The humble tejocote (teh-HO-cot-ay). In a great article in the LA Times, fruit expert David Karp explains why this was and how it is changing.
A couple of days ago I finally got around to reading Gary Nabhan’s book Arab/American. I was entranced as Nabhan, best known for his work on the ecology of the Sonoran desert, for foraging, and for support of local foods, explained how he kept finding parallels and resonances between the American southwest and Lebanon/Syria, the [...]
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