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 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…
Read moreSugar, Salt, and Fossil Fuels
Thanks to Lane Turner, staff photographer and pictorial editor for the Boston Globe, for putting together a wonderful slide show of (largely) traditional methods of producing sugar and salt. via Sugar…
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