I’ve been talking with Carolina Capehart of Historic Cookery about the size of a tablespoon of flour in William Kitchiner’s Cook’s Oracle (1831 for 1817). Using six tablespoons of flour…
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A post from Slate is flying round the web. Vegetables are a made-up category, the author Benjamin Phelan, a writer living in Louisville, suggests, because they do not belong to…
Read moreA Critique of the Mediterranean Diet. And More by a Spanish Food Historian
Mr Keys* and his Spanish friends located in the United States dedicated themselves to promoting the benefits of a [Mediterranean] diet that was only strictly followed in Crete and that…
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