A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
Until recently Jewish Mexican cooking was unknown outside the 50,000 Mexican Jews, most of whom arrived in the early twentieth century. [EDIT. Here I am ignoring the Jews who came in the sixteenth century. That is a whole other and distinct story.] In Mexico, the search for the Mexican tradition, for indigenous and colonial Spanish [...]
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Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal about Iran’s purchase of wheat from the US. Shades of Russian wheat purchases during the cold war. And another on the chicken industry in the US. Planning ahead so that your chicken will be ready.
Read: Wheat to Iran and Chicken Sets: Interesting Articles from the WSJ
Delia Smith, that is. If you don’t live in Great Britain, you’ve probably never heard of her. So you don’t know that when she did a television cooking show on how to boil an egg, 54 million more eggs than normal were sold in the next few days. Since the population of Great Britain is [...]
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