Diplomats and the Rise of “Foodism” in the 1960s and 1970s

For some years, I’ve thought about posting an intermittent series of blog posts under the heading “questions and wild speculations.”  As long as wild speculation is acknowledged for what it…

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Notes and Queries: Cuisines

Notes and Queries: Cuisines

In the last few weeks as I have been preparing a couple of papers and a presentation, I’ve been thinking a lot about cuisine as a way of understanding the…

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Servants in the Kitchen: Professed Cooks and Plain Cooks

Servants in the Kitchen: Professed Cooks and Plain Cooks

I don’t think it’s possible to address the question of whether employers appropriated the culinary knowledge of their cooks without understanding the different kinds of cooks in domestic service. Four…

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