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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.

The Austerity Kitchen

Bon Appé-teat

By Christine BaumgarthuberJanuary 23, 2014
Milking a bad dining experience for all it's worth
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Varsity Voracity

By Christine BaumgarthuberJanuary 14, 2014
Higher learning and higher caloric intake have long gone hand in hand
Essays & Reviews

Sewing Dissent

By Christine BaumgarthuberJanuary 7, 2014
A generation beleaguered by insecurity has lifted thimble-covered middle fingers to the “new normal”
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Holiday Spirits High and Low

By Christine BaumgarthuberDecember 20, 2013
What the Dickens gets into some people at Christmas?
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Domestic Unrest

By Christine BaumgarthuberDecember 9, 2013
The little-known history behind the current craze for all things domestic
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The General Store of Yore

By Christine BaumgarthuberNovember 12, 2013
These fixtures of American towns dominated local markets but were later liquidated by corporate competitors
Essays & Reviews

Hex Before Marriage

By Christine BaumgarthuberNovember 5, 2013
Turning on the charm used to mean something quite different
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Spirits in the Material World

By Christine BaumgarthuberOctober 31, 2013
A helping of Halloween heebie-jeebies from The Ghosterity Kitchen
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Unbehagen in der Natur

By Christine BaumgarthuberOctober 17, 2013
He who treats the world as his own private garden is bound to come a cropper
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A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals

By Christine BaumgarthuberOctober 10, 2013
Though not always a smorgasbord, meals enjoyed by Norsemen sometimes offered a little taste of Valhalla
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Confectionery Curriculum

By Christine BaumgarthuberSeptember 19, 2013
Intellectual development is no cakewalk, but its rewards are sweet
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Licensed to Ill

By Christine BaumgarthuberSeptember 9, 2013
In America of yesteryear, you often had to be sick to eat well
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Upper Crustacean

By Christine BaumgarthuberAugust 22, 2013
On how to claw your way to greater distinction
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Preservation Society

By Christine BaumgarthuberAugust 12, 2013
Early Americans brought a "can do" attitude to the problem of food storage
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Feeding Animosity

By Christine BaumgarthuberJuly 26, 2013
Hell is eating with other people
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The Inn Crowd

By Christine BaumgarthuberJuly 18, 2013
Bad food and lousy beds didn't keep early American taverns from turning a tidy profit

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