Arcadia: The Elite Dream of Happiness
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Arcadia recently, partly as the result of reading Adam Nicolson’s Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection (2008). It describes the…
Read moreCooking. 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…
Read moreThoughts 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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