The Culinary Newsletter’s Golden Age 1980-2000
What glorious decades the 1980s and 1990s were for those of us English speakers with an intellectual interest in food. What fascinated us was the history of food, the food…
Read moreThe Flowering of Flour 14,000 Years Ago
“Bread-like” foodstuffs were being made about 14,000 years ago, well before farming was well established. This according to a paper just published by Amaia Arranz-Otaegui and colleagues in a paper…
Read moreOn My Mind: Grains, Progress, Food Riots, Food Fixes, and More
Grains and Civilization: Good or Bad? A great step forward or not? The agricultural revolution that many of us grew up learning about is being reconsidered. Against the Grain: A…
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