What 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…
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Chris Blattman’s syllabus for his course at Yale. The comments are useful too.
Read moreMea Culpa
I just deleted the last twenty five comments. That means lots of comments that I have not replied to or that are part of on-going discussions. You can, with justice,…
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