For some years, I’ve thought about posting an intermittent series of blog posts under the heading “questions and wild speculations.” As long as wild speculation is acknowledged for what it…
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Well, the big publishers are betting on this topic. This month Alfred A. Knopf is releasing Robert Paarlberg’s Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat…
Read moreCooking in a Bedsitter
I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…
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