Our Daily Bread: A Meditation by Predrag Matvejević
The end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943 saw one of the harshest winters of the century. In norther Germany, near Osnabrück, my father [a Russian speaker from the…
Read moreHeavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland
In this long post (you’ve been warned), I’m going to try to imagine the potato cuisine of the Irish poor in the century before the Great Famine of 1845-52. In…
Read moreHunger, Bread, Free Trade, and the Moral Consumer
Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together. Last week I spent a good bit of time at a…
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