The Art of Making Bread in the Stone Age
I thought it was about time I had a new header more appropriate for a historian. And since I enjoy collecting and dissecting pictures of people grinding grains, I’ve put…
Read moreThe Japanese as a Wheat-Eating Nation
Sorry, folks. I hit the publish on this before I meant to. In any case an interesting story in Slate. I’d actually put the beginnings of the Japanese move to…
Read moreKrugman on English food (3). Industrialization
So now from urbanization to industrialization, the second of the two culprits that Paul Krugman fingers for the awfulness of English food. 1. Perhaps Krugman means that the British industrial…
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