Soy and Politics in Argentina: An Interesting and Important Case in Various Ways
What happened A week or so ago I posted on the protests in Buenos Aires. Farmers, enraged by a new export tax on grains that meant that they would be…
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Well, as I was writing that last scholarly post about the twists and turns in ensaimada history, one huge row broke out around our apartment, horns honking, saucepans banging. Not…
Read moreBakers, Anarchists, and Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Every so often I find my food historian hairs standing on end. This week was one of those times. The unlikely source was the Summer/Autumn 2008 issue of Time Out…
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