The Japanese Butter Shortage: Changing Tastes and the Food Crisis

The Japanese are short of butter and considering emergency imports, according to the Wall Street Journal. How the worm turns, at least on the biggish historical scale. A hundred and…

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Lest We Forget: Servants in Culinary History

Today the question of servants is an embarrassing one. We pussyfoot around the very mention of the word “servant.” It’s just so politically incorrect. Few people in modern America or…

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The Mysterious Doña Lola of Argentina

Sitting in front of me I have El Arte de la Mesa by Lola P. de Pietrana, a hefty volume of a thousand pages. And it presents a little culinary…

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