So How Do I Decide What Is or Isn’t a Cuisine?
It’s all very well for me (or anyone else) to wave my hands and say “Local Food is a Cuisine” or “It’s not clear whether the United States had or…
Read moreWhat are regional cuisines? Reflections on Hawaii and other places
“We don’t want generic Mexican cuisine,” friends would often say when they visited us in Mexico. “We want to experience the regional cuisines.” Well, yes, it’s true that there are…
Read moreThe Culinary Newsletter’s Golden Age 1980-2000
What glorious decades the 1980s and 1990s were for those of us English speakers with an intellectual interest in food. What fascinated us was the history of food, the food…
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