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.…

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200 Years of Culinary Nationalism in Latin America. Overview.

  Last night I returned, exhausted, from three days at the conference on 200 Years of Culinary Nationalism in Latin America in Guadalajara. It was excellent, even better than I…

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200 Years of Latin American Culinary Nationalism

In a couple of weeks, I’m off to what should be a really interesting conference on nationalism and cuisine in Latin America. For the first time ever, historians and anthropologists…

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