A Small Cautionary Tale about Cookbooks and Authenticity
When I moved to Mexico in the mid 1990s, I took a series of cooking classes from a very charming and knowledgeable Mexican woman. She started each class by passing…
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I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…
Read moreJump Right In: A New Tool for Historical Research Using Cookbooks
On July 10 of this year 2020, a huge, open-access editable cook book data base—The Sifter–went on line. Half a century and more than half a lifetime has passed…
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