Last week I attended a conference entitled Food: Heritage, Hybridity and Locality hosted by the American Studies Department at Brown University. It was a small conference, always the best, with…
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African Traces in Central Mexico
About a hundred years ago Romualdo García was the photographer of choice in Guanajuato [GWAN-A-WHA-TOE], a wealthy mining town on the high central plateau of Mexico. As these images…
Read moreThe Decline of Home Cooking?
Home cooking and family meals are in decline in the US. Time for a rescue mission. That’s the message from a slew of recent editorials and blog posts. Food writers…
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