What Do We Really Know about the History of the Wok?
Not much. Just enough to know that the standard story has to be revised. My long-time friend and fine scholar and anthropologist, E.N. Anderson, told this story in The Food…
Read moreWhy is Africa Poor?
Chris Blattman’s syllabus for his course at Yale. The comments are useful too.
Read moreThomas’s Mexican Muffins?
OK, for those of you who don’t live in North America, “English” muffins, especially Thomas’s, are a basic breakfast toast. And now comes Bimbo from Mexico. Not only has it…
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