I was delighted today to have this review of Cuisine and Empire in the Times Literary Supplement by Peter Thonemann, a classicist at Oxford. Just scroll down to the middle…
Read moreHunger is best sauce. Or the republican culinary tradition
If you google “hunger is the best sauce,” you’ll come across lots of variants (pickle, spice) as well as lots of attributions from Socrates to Cicero to Cervantes. It’s a…
Read moreHappy Thanksgiving
After a week of grey, Austin has reverted to its sunny, blue skies. It seems like the New Year, the first day that I have not had looming deadlines in…
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