On July 10 of this year 2020, a huge, open-access editable cook book data base—The Sifter–went on line. Half a century and more than half a lifetime has passed…
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Why so many foodie institutions fail: or thoughts on the Oxford Symposium and the Southern Foodways Alliance
Every time I poke about on the shelves and in the file drawers of my study, I run across the remains of failed “foodie” institutions, using the foodie here as…
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El cerro (the hill) began a hundred yards or so above the street where I lived for ten years in the city of Guanajuato, capital of the state of Guanajuato. …
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