Beef for Sailors: Maritime History Meets Food History
“Difficulty between the United States and Great Britain about Wild Pigs.” How can anyone not love a title like that? It’s from the New York Times, May 23, 1854, p.…
Read moreWhy White Bread and Maize Were/Are Preferred (Again)
Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard’s father and head art teacher at the Sir Jamsetje Jeejeboy College of Art in Bombay, founded by the epynonymous Indian benefactor, reflects on the Indian peasant diet.…
Read moreVegetables, A Made-Up Category? And So?
A post from Slate is flying round the web. Vegetables are a made-up category, the author Benjamin Phelan, a writer living in Louisville, suggests, because they do not belong to…
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