The Anti-Aristocratic Thanksgiving Meal
Here I am with my annual reminder about how unusual American Thanksgiving is as a national meal. As nations were created from the eighteenth century on, all kinds of readily…
Read moreAmerican Thanksgiving as a republican meal, a repudiation of the high cuisine of monarchies
For a national meal, Thanksgiving is really rather extraordinary. It is not a public event, it is not showy, it is a home-cooked meal of ordinary ingredients shared by the…
Read moreThe Food Writer that was Johan Mathieson
Sidney Mintz, the anthropologist and author of Sweetness and Power, sent Johan notes about books. Maida Heatter, cookbook author and ‘legend of desserts,’ sent him batches of cookies. John Thorne,…
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