Native Regard
Some colonial women held captive by Native American tribes found the experience liberating
Negative Dietetics
Kant turn back
Life of Pie
You won't mind filling yourself in on the history baked into this dessert
Room for Improvement
Tenants had a real beef with the food served in New York boarding houses
The Potato System
Peeling back the layers of this humble vegetable's history reveals that, no matter how you slice it, there's power in spuds
Appetitive Affinities
On the inaccessibility of certain summer flavors
Noshing with Nomads
Wandering peoples knew no distinction between home-cooked dinners and meals "on the go"
Radish Malorum
Tolstoy's take on the "guns versus butter" problem
Dutch Treat
Enlightened government, humane ethics, and bustling trade meant that even the lowliest in the Low Countries shared in the high times
Hyperreality Bites
We'll all float on okay
Frozen Dinners
Photograph from Roald Amundsen's The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 (1913) I reviewed two books on Antarctic…
The Art of Antarctic Cooking
It's a dog-eat-dog world down there at the South Pole
The Tao of Chow
First there is some mutton. Then there is no mutton. Then there is
History Made Queasy
A fresh look at rotten food's influence on world events
Cat Gut
9 lives meet 32 teeth
Red Holidays of Genius
The Italian Futurists' marriage of man and machine was a feast for the senses