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Bread, Celestial Made. Or Bread’s Long Journey to Hawaii

By Rachel Laudan May 21, 2010 Bread, Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Hawaiian Food 7 Comments

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time.  This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840.  If it’s hard to read the words,…

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Nose Cartilage? The Global Trade in Beef

By Rachel Laudan January 31, 2008 Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now No Comments

An older but interesting article from the Wall Street Journal about how Brasilian beef carcasses are dismembered for the global trade. Nasal cartilage goes off to Hong Kong for soup,…

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