Notes & Queries. Medicine, US Agriculture, Celery, Noodles, Curry, Barbecue, Tiki

Notes & Queries. Medicine, US Agriculture, Celery, Noodles, Curry, Barbecue, Tiki

  Food, the Forgotten Medicine. A virtual issue of the Social History of Medicine, collecting papers on the topic from different issues. Unusually helpful introduction by Rachel Rich(@RachelSRich) and Sara Pennell…

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Do Those Who Cultivate Rice Paddies Think Holistically and Lag Industrially?

Nothing is more unsettling intellectually than finding serious researchers in other disciplines take for granted presumptions that you find questionable. And unsettled is how the article “Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within…

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Do Emigrants Create National (or Regional) Cuisines?

I think in some cases emigrants do create national or regional cuisines. They create them in their new countries. And then they introduce them to their home countries. Not always,…

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