A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
I’ve just returned from the main annual meeting of a group called the International Association of Culinary Professionals in New Orleans. It’s an interesting umbrella organization that offers shelter to those interested in food who don’t find a natural home elsewhere. I rubbed shoulders with food stylists, journalists, owners of gourmet shops, tour [...]
Read: Some Publishers with Interesting Books on Food History
Visiting Ken Albala’s entertaining and informative blog, I discovered he is now butchering venison. This is the moment to pay tribute to the Fletchers of Auchtermuchty. They are the gold standard for venison in the British Isles and I would bet the world. They’ve spent decades farm-raising venison. I ordered some [...]
Read: Incredible People and Their Food: The Fletchers of Auchtermuchty
Don’t you love that word? Victualling Supplying with food. And let’s supply some food for thought. N.A.M Rogers, in his magisterial history of the British Navy in the eighteenth century, The Command of the Ocean (Penguin 2005) traces how Britain between 1645 and 1815 came to control the world’s oceans. It’s hardly necessary [...]
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