Update on Romanian Pig Slaughtering
Mihaela Lica who has a blog “Romania: Simply Surprising” posted last year on the annual killing of pigs for the Christmas meal, the subject of some debate in the EU. …
Read moreWhat Do We Really Know about the History of the Wok?
Not much. Just enough to know that the standard story has to be revised. My long-time friend and fine scholar and anthropologist, E.N. Anderson, told this story in The Food…
Read moreWhy is Africa Poor?
Chris Blattman’s syllabus for his course at Yale. The comments are useful too.
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