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Christine Baumgarthuber

writes The Austerity Kitchen—where the alimentary is elementary. Her work has been featured by Dissent, Lapham's Quarterly Roundtable, MAX JOSEPH and Bon Appétit, and she has appeared on Heritage Radio Network's A Taste of the Past. She can be reached at theausteritykitchen [at] gmail [dot] com.

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Boor and Peace: The Russian Occupation of Paris and the Birth of the Bistro

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 17, 2012
The cosmopolitan leisure that the Parisian café has come to symbolize belies its humbler origin. The story of its emergence is written in blood and fire, namely, that which was spilled and ignited during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Seeing these men live it up makes my mouth water....

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 16, 2012
"People have even made eating into something else: necessity on the one hand, excess on the other...."
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Some Assembly Required: Parlor Games and Their Uses

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 13, 2012
If all that's solid melted into air under conditions of capitalism, parlor games and similar practices acted as so many bladders to capture this sublimated social stuff that was formerly so reliably substantial.
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The luncheon was not altogether a success....

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 10, 2012
"She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie...."
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Plié ... Relevé ... Heel!

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 8, 2012
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely critters--at least as far as Mrs. Midnight's Animal Comedians were concerned.
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Starting out in the Evening

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 2, 2012
A newly revised Starting Out is in order. But what would such a thing look like? Under my editorship it would be present- rather than future-oriented, and it would exult an ethic of making do. Entire chapters would be devoted to advice on living, if not stylishly, then passably while servicing debt. It would be
Essays & Reviews

Reader's Digest

By Christine BaumgarthuberOctober 10, 2011
A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the…
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The Art of Cuisine: Fragrant Vapors of Goulash

By Christine BaumgarthuberJune 20, 2011
In her absence, her father, a meager pensioner with a passion for heraldry, blazonry, archivology, and sigillography, absconds with his wife for the King of Hungary, a local restaurant, to determine whether what their daughter, a champion of simple, economical home-cooked meals, says of eating places was in fact true: that they serve nothing but
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The Art of Cuisine: "Such Lawless Cake"

By Christine BaumgarthuberMay 31, 2011
Photo: The Moonshiner's Daughter, N. Brock, 1900 "I was usually left with her while both families went to church on Sabbath mornings and well remember being…
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The Art of Cuisine: Mediterranean

By Christine BaumgarthuberMay 5, 2011
A review of A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David New York Review Books Classics, 203 pp., $14.95 In 1939 Elizabeth David, a lord’s…
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The Art of Cuisine (8): Cakes and Tarts

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 19, 2011
When the delight of frolicking with his pets wears thin, the count feasts on large fruit tarts, which he inundates with jugs of cream.

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