A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
Of the top 20 wheat importers for 2010, almost half are Middle Eastern countries. The list reads like a playbook of toppled and teetering regimes: Egypt (1), Algeria (4), Iraq (7), Morocco (8), Yemen (13), Saudi Arabia (15), Libya (16), Tunisia (17). For decades, many of these regimes relied on food subsidies to ensure stability [...]
I’m green with envy. I would give anything to be in Los Angeles on the 16th and 17th October, for the couscous festival, run by Susan Ji-Young Park, a frequent commentator on this blog, and her husband Farid Zadi. Here’s what Farid has to say about the genesis of the festival. My parents immigrated to [...]
Read: Couscous. Can’t-Miss Festival and Origins of Mexican Couscous
Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together. Last week I spent a good bit of time at a seminar on Nutritional Anthropology and more writing about how in nineteenth-century Europe, famines ceased to be a regular part of life, as well as going [...]
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