Why Can’t I Eat Refined Food and Plain Food?

That’s the question Liz Williams of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum asked me. Well, lot’s the time that’s exact what we do. For breakfast we have milk and cornflakes.…

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Refined Food or Plain Food?

That’s the (latest) title of a presentation I gave at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery last week. The draft paper and the handout can be found in the…

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Grinding: A Puzzle from 5th Century Greece

I’m always looking out for anything that sheds light on grinding with a saddle quern (or a metate as it would be called in Mexico). Museums often have some dusty…

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