French Women Don’t Get Fat

Shelved under fiction in the bookstores in the San Diego Airport when I passed through there yesterday.

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Assorted Links

It’s becoming increasingly evident that much of what passes for extra virgin olive oil is a scam. This newsletter from Silvestro Silvestori is a good introduction (and the rest of…

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Some conferences related to food and globalization

A Conference on the Moral, Economic, and Social Life of Coffee Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (fall 2008) organized by Robert Thurston, Professor of History, Miami U. thurstrw@muohio.edu Dates: Friday, October…

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