What’s the History of the Wok? A Continuing Investigation
I was so pleased to get a message yesterday from the distinguished sinologist, Victor Mair (and here), having found my blog posts on the wok. Here’s the first asking what…
Read moreCooking Across Cultures, Classes, and Sexes in the 1930s: The Extraordinary Career of Mary Sia
When I taught at the University of Hawai‘i in the 1980s, I often wandered into the university bookstore during the lunch hour. Always on the shelf of local cookbooks was…
Read moreTwo nineteenth-century kitchens: Mexico and China
Photographs of old kitchens are not that common so I was delighted to come across this one. In the early twentieth century, Mineral de la Luz was a boom…
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