Grains and Civilization: Good or Bad? A great step forward or not? The agricultural revolution that many of us grew up learning about is being reconsidered. Against the Grain: A…
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Just a few items in food history and politics that have caught my attention this week. Anissa Helou‘s magnificent, far-reaching Feast: Food of the Islamic World is out. It’s taut…
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An age of commerce and civility was how many eighteenth-century thinkers, including the Scots Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson and Frenchmen such as Turgot, saw their own time. Unlike previous…
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