My Great Grandmother’s Industrially Processed Food

Warnings not to eat anything your grandmother (or great grandmother or great-great grandmother) would not recognize as food have echoed around the web since Michael Pollan first promoted this rule…

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Five Things I Learned at Texas Foodways

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend the annual Texas Foodways conference, this time in San Antonio, a city I can’t wait to explore further.  For…

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Why the Beef? Empire and Cuisine

On April 12th I will be talking at the Food Book Fair in New York (details below).  It’s a great panel, put together by fellow former historian of science, Evelyn…

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