The long road from cacao to chocolate
Chocolate is an oddity. It’s one of the few native American foodstuffs to make it immediately to the Old World. And now, when anyone who has any pride in their…
Read morePanamá Gastronómica. For Real
Girls in national dress primping in bathroom Sorry to all those who checked an earlier post to find a blank page. A genie. So here we go again. One of…
Read moreFoie Gras and Gastronomical Heritage
“Foie gras belongs to the protected cultural and gastronomical heritage of France”, according to French law (French rural code L654-27-1). Hmm. Go read Michaela DeSoucey’s article on gastronationalism in the…
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