Warnings not to eat anything your grandmother (or great grandmother or great-great grandmother) would not recognize as food have echoed around the web since Michael Pollan first promoted this rule…
Read moreHere’s a lovely description of a small farmer’s meal about a hundred and fifty years ago in north Wiltshire (Southwest England). It occurs in the novel, Amaryllis at the Fair,…
Read moreOn April 12th I will be talking at the Food Book Fair in New York (details below). It’s a great panel, put together by fellow former historian of science, Evelyn…
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