Cleaning Up: Vultures in India

A little teeny consequence of eating is that it produces tons of of garbage. There’s the regular garbage, of course. But that’s just the beginning. There are all the stalks…

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What to Do about the Food of the Poor: Mexico City 1940s and 50s

Sandra Aguilar, a Mexican friend who is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, just sent me a paper she published this month in The Americas called “Cooking Modernity:…

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Incredible People and Their Food: The Fletchers of Auchtermuchty

Visiting Ken Albala’s entertaining and informative blog, I discovered he is now butchering venison. This is the moment to pay tribute to the Fletchers of Auchtermuchty. They are the gold…

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