A couple of days ago, I had a sharp “oh no!” reaction to a Facebook thread where lots of people I respect were enthusing over the prospect that the famous…
Read moreKrugman on English Food (2). Urbanization
To quickly recap what I said in the first post of this series, Krugman uses the presumed awfulness of English food from the early nineteenth century to the 1980s to…
Read moreThe Not-So Humble Loaf: An Interview with Aaron Bobrow-Strain
A couple of years ago I heard Aaron Bobrow-Strain give a fascinating talk at the University of California, Davis about American white bread in the Cold War. When I was…
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