Cooking. What’s Involved and What That Means

I continue with the exploration of cooking as all the operations humans use to turn raw materials into something edible, digestible, and nutritious (while realizing some of my readers may…

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Cooking. What is It?

We are bombarded with information about how to cook and with exhortations to cook.  But what is cooking? It’s a question that I have considered from time to time over…

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Thoughts on Promoting Cuisine and Empire

Well, barring World War III, my world food history, Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History, will be out with the University of California Press in the Fall. If you…

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