Who Farms, Who Processes? Men or Women?
In my earlier post I suggested that traditionally farming was men’s work and post-harvest processing women’s work. That may be the general pattern. There are lots of exceptions though. Women…
Read moreMen’s Labor (Farming) vs Women’s Labor (Cooking): Tortillas
Note. If you’ve been to this page before, I’ve now (pm 5 december) edited the figures. Many thanks Larry. I’ve just been reading E.A. Wrigley‘s Energy and the English…
Read moreSlow Food: The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism
Slow Food, say its advocates, takes gastronomy to another and higher level. Somewhere between a latter-day religion and a political program, this version of gastronomy will save us from the…
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