A Thanksgiving Luau: Celebrating Hawaii’s Annexation 1898

Three years ago, Henry Voigt (who has a wonderful collection of menus that was written up in Gastronomica) sent me scans of this menu for a Thanksgiving luau and asked…

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Journalism and More on Bull Calves

For some years now, I’ve had the feeling that the major newspapers in the United States do a terrible job on agricultural reporting. It’s not surprsing because the reporters are…

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Dairies, calves and beef

I’ve been ruminating a bit on the relations between dairy and beef, following my last post on India as a big milk producer now also being a big beef exporter. …

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