Taste as a Measure of Man.* Please No.

The use of taste to take the measure of others swung completely out of control on Twitter in the last couple of days. For those of you wise enough not…

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Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…

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Ten Takes on Mole, Mexico’s National Dish

Ten Takes on Mole, Mexico’s National Dish

  Life has been a bit hectic lately so I have not had a chance to polish my next posts on Thinking About the Land. They’re all there in draft…

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