Cooking 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…

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Krugman on English food (3). Industrialization

So now from urbanization to industrialization, the second of the two culprits that Paul Krugman fingers for the awfulness of English food. 1.  Perhaps Krugman means that the British industrial…

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A Taste of Home

I’ve just been putting the finishing touches on a keynote that I’ll be giving for a conference on the Taste of Home next week in Brussels. It’s a conference I’ve…

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