Why You Should Be Interested in Barbara Santich’s History of Australian Cuisine

In a nutshell. Because it’s part of the history of Anglo cuisine. Between 1790 and 1930, the number of Anglos (that is, English speakers, including Americans) increased sixteen-fold, from 12…

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Krugman on English Food (2). Urbanization

To quickly recap what I said in the first post of this series, Krugman uses the presumed awfulness of English food from the early nineteenth century to the 1980s to…

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Supply, Demand and English Food. (1) The Krugman Thesis

In July 1998, the Nobel prizewinner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had a blog that featured English food. Then in December of last year, Tyler Cowen of George…

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