A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
To what extent do you think that whole sacrifice thing was just nice little sideline for keeping the priests well fed? And, by extension, their flock, once the priests had had their fill.
That’s what Jeremy asks.
Don’t psychologists say that their three great unanswered questions are sleep, laughter, and religion? Far be it from me to [...]
Read: The sacrificial feast? A nice little sideline for the priests?
More from Adam Balic. A strong tonic to current nostalgia. And something I’ll be following up.
It is worth remembering how much “Starving in Spring” dominated peoples lives until very recently. In fact in some cases it still dominates the terms we use in relation to food. Consider “Spring Lamb”, it is now a ubiquitous term [...]
Food shopping in Mexico is changing so fast it’s hard to keep up. Every trip even to Sam’s and Costco offers lots of food for thought. Here are three for today.
1. The big Italian pasta company Barilla is taking on traditional Mexican pasta. Of course for ages the Wal-Mart chain has been selling Barilla Italian-style [...]
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