Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 25, 2019)
Radioactive sushi, the precarity of American food service workers, and an update on the vertical farming scene — all in this week’s linkpile.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 18, 2019)
Bronze-Age parasite infestations, fast-food coronary clusters, and starving to make the rent — all in this week’s linkpile.
Pytipanna (Links for the Week of August 11, 2019)
Lunchroom memes, the science behind gluten intolerance, and dismal airport food — all in this week’s linkpile.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 4, 2019)
Image: Boston Public Library Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Welcome to food desert America, where some 70 percent of food is "ultra-processed" In…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 28, 2019)
Image: A Neapolitan Watermelon Shop from the Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." If you're worried about controlling your…
Dinner with Lydia Maria Child
I began the Dinner series in 2016 with "Dinner with Caligula." Much to my shock and sorrow, Caligula did show up to dinner. But history…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 21, 2019)
Image: Boston Public Library Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Black-owned restaurants are gaining in numbers and popularity One meatless slideróor even a…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
Image from Geo H. Gennawey, Rocky Point, R.I., "Shore Dinner, Rocky Point, R.I." (1935). Rhode Island Postcards. 273. Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan."…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 7)
Image from the Ice Cream Trade Journal (1922) Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Greening "food desert" communities, one school at a time…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of June 30)
Image via archive.org Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” A recent expose of ongoing institutional discrimination at the USDA. Did SCOTUS just clear…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of June 23)
Image from Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s My Cookery Books (1903) Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Nevada passes $10 million food bill—but it doesn't have…
Coweye Burgers and Plastic Malts
Do hemorrhoids dream of deceptive meat?
Dinner with Caligula
The mind-boggling extravagance of feasts hosted by Roman emperors depended on an equally mind-boggling maldistribution of wealth
A Contrary Image of Steaming Excrement
Let it move you
Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
Under conditions of capitalism, it may be that you are what you don't eat
Cooking Class
Though food writing has been an elite delicacy for most of history, for a brief moment it became a middle-class staple