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Food
May 3, 2024
Behind the Privet Hedge
Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is litt…
May 3, 2024
The Editor
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—f…
May 2, 2024
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother’s presence. She soon realized tha…
April 29, 2024
States of Intoxication
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is it problematic in some countries and not others? How did alcohol help build the modern state? …
April 28, 2024
Forgotten Foods
Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia (Pan Macmillan India, 2023) is a collection of essays and recipes that highlights the com…
April 19, 2024
The Paris Novel
Stella St. Vincent, a thirty-something copy editor in 1980s New York, has survived a relationship with her mother, Celia, so complicated that even the…
April 17, 2024
Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine
With his new book Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine: Winemaking on the North Fork of Long Island (SUNY Press, 2024), Richard Olsen-Harbich, Long Island's longest-t…
April 16, 2024
A History of the World in 10 Dinners
For every lover of food culture, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (Rizzoli, 2023) by Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel pre…
April 14, 2024
Chinese Espresso
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas sin…
April 13, 2024
The Simple Art of Rice
The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table (Flatiron Books, 2023) is a cookbook celebrating the versatility of …
April 5, 2024
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023) critically examines contemporary health and wellnes…
April 3, 2024
Hokkaido Dairy Farm
As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Ot…
March 31, 2024
Boardinghouse Women
In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues…
March 30, 2024
School Food Politics in Mexico
For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health of…
March 28, 2024
Bigger Fish to Fry
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? Bigger Fish to Fry: A…
March 19, 2024
Animals and Capital
In the 20th century, capitalist animal agriculture emerged with a twofold mission: to ruthlessly exploit animals for their labour time and enlarge hum…
March 18, 2024
Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, about his new book, From Label to Table…
March 14, 2024
Secret Harvests
Today’s book is: Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, 2023), by David Mas Masumoto. In hi…
March 8, 2024
The Taste of Water
Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage …
March 6, 2024
No Meat Required
A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative…