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Food
October 6, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…
September 27, 2024
Making It
The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Ye…
September 17, 2024
Handcrafted Careers
Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer (U California Press, 2024) unpacks the problems and privileges of pursuing a career of …
September 17, 2024
Baking in the American South
Witness the rise of Southern baking from the humble, make-do recipes of earlier generations to its place as one of the world's richest culinary tradit…
September 14, 2024
China's Camel Country
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted…
September 13, 2024
When a Dream Dies
Unlike a flood or fire, a the Farming Crisis of the 1980s did not have a set beginning of ending. Rather, it was a rolling, often invisible, disaster …
September 6, 2024
Second Generation
From Jeremy Salamon the chef and owner of Agi’s Counter in Brooklyn comes 100 classic Hungarian and Jewish recipes reinvented for a new generation – S…
September 2, 2024
Appetite and Its Discontents
Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its D…
September 1, 2024
The Book of Yerba Mate
Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid efferves…
September 1, 2024
Wood, Whiskey and Wine
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest wines and spirits. For over t…
August 31, 2024
Mango
Mango: A Global History (Reaktion, 2024) by Constance L. Kirker & Dr Mary Newman is a beautifully illustrated book that takes us on a tour through the…
August 31, 2024
Soda Science
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where power…
August 26, 2024
The Humane Hoax
As consumers become increasingly aware of the animal agriculture industry’s cruelty and environmental devastation, clever industry marketers are adapt…
August 23, 2024
Twist in the Tail
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage throu…
August 14, 2024
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Count…
August 1, 2024
Spice
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. T…
July 11, 2024
Insatiable City
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans (U Chicag…
July 3, 2024
Chop Fry Watch Learn
In 1971, the New York Times called the Taiwanese-Chinese chef, Fu Pei-Mei, the “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.” But, as Michelle T. King notes …
July 3, 2024
Locusts of Power
In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and En…
June 22, 2024
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are…