The Joy of Ice Cream: Condensed Milk (2)

The Joy of Ice Cream: Condensed Milk (2)

Back to condensed milk.  You might think that giving recipes for condensed milk ice cream (and later other recipes) is a lapse from the high seriousness of blogging about who…

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Dreams of Food in Any Damn POW Camp in the Pacific

Dreams of Food in Any Damn POW Camp in the Pacific

36,000 Americans were imprisoned in Japanese POW camps in World War II, most of them for three or more years. Their chance of survival was not much better than 1 in…

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What the Roman Empire Knew About Food Miles

What the Roman Empire Knew About Food Miles

  Provisioning Rome, one of the world’s largest cities, if not the largest with as many as a million people by about 55 B.C., was one of the greatest challenges…

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