Food History

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• If you were a muleteer…pinole and other roasted powders

  
  Rachel Laudan — Authority: 419
  Muleteers were not people I’d thought about much until a few years ago.  Yet 14,000 mules worked the silver mines in the eighteenth century in Guanajuato where I now live.  That at least was the estimate of Henry George Ward in his book Mexico in 1827 . 14, ooo mules is a lot of mules.  Some were in the mines. ...
  15 hours ago

• A Jolly Olde Christmas Redux

  
  Leites Culinaria — Authority: 430
  When on Christmas morning Scrooge wanted to mend his ways, he sent an errand boy to buy the biggest turkey available, “not the little prize turkey, the big one.” In Victorian times, as today, nothing said holiday like a big roast, and Scrooge’s surprise for the Cratchit family conveys the ultimate in ...
  18 hours ago

• Scrapple Flame Wars of 1872

  
  Mike's Musings — Authority: 113
  MetaFilter points to an entry from the New York Times of a few days back that reports on an incident of angry letter-writing in the Times in the late 1800s. " The Way We Ate: The Great Scrapple Correspondence of 1872 " recounts a discussion of scrapple , our regional "delicacy," in the Times letters. It all started ...
  1 day ago

• Black Forest Cafe and the “Too Fat Polka”

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 570
  Foray to the Container Store a success, the question:  What to do about dinner? Kathryn asked, “How about that little German joint in back of Half Price Books?” The Black Forest Cafe and Bakery.  Legendary for its Black Forest Cake.  For years it had a small shop inside the “mother ship” of Half Price ...
  1 day ago

• Corn syrup "more deadly than terrorism"; eat maple

  
  Joy of Desserts — Authority: 112
  Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers. Youre invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage . I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe ...
  4 days ago

• Sacrifice revisited

  
  Rachel Laudan — Authority: 419
  Following up several comments, thanks all of you. Burning bones.  Bones have to be heated to a high temperature to get them going, but then they burn well.  Mammoth bones were fuel in the Ice Age when other fuels were hard to come by.  Bones burn when bodies are cremated. Ash.  The Greeks saved the ash from the ...
  4 days ago

• Where Is All The Gingerbread...??

  
  Coffee with the Hermit — Authority: 424
  One thing I remember from my early years, is the gingerbread at holiday time. I especially liked the gingerbread men. I think there were probably some gingerbread women as well...but I dont remember the gender of the cookies being of any particular importance at the time! I think we were mostly taken by the various ...
  6 days ago

• the anti-vagina complex

  
  gimcrack hospital (PG) — Authority: 467
  In the Western Highlands of New Guinea many men believe that female sexuality is potent and dangerous. They think that prolonged contact with women can make their bones dissolve, and lead to debilitation and even death. “As one might expect, the terror of women’s contamination focuses on the vagina. ...
  1 week ago

• The sacrificial feast? A nice little sideline for the priests?

  
  Rachel Laudan — Authority: 419
  To what extent do you think that whole sacrifice thing was just nice little sideline for keeping the priests well fed? And, by extension, their flock, once the priests had had their fill. That’s what Jeremy asks. Don’t psychologists say that their three great unanswered questions are sleep, laughter, and ...
  1 week ago

• Kumquat (Κουμκουάτ)

  
  Organically cooked — Authority: 120
  "Hey guys!" My American-Greek colleague had just come into the office after taking summer leave for two weeks. "Guess where Ive come back from!"Eirini had been planning this trip for a long time. She had decided not to tell us where she was going, but promised us, in that good Greek manners style of hers, that she ...
  1 week ago

• Yeah, it’s ironic (hacked e-mails and global warming)

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 570
  James’s Empty Blog : It is hard to miss the irony in people eagerly poring through illegally-obtained private email, looking for ethical breaches by the writers! I’m sure we can all imagine the outrage if one of the emails revealed that a scientist had hacked into one of the sceptics’ computers and was reading ...
  1 week ago

• English influence on Greek food

  
  Rachel Laudan — Authority: 419
  So pleased to have Sam Sotiropoulos join the debate about whether Greek food owes anything to the British. Be sure to check his comments about how kumquats and probably potatoes came to Greece thanks to the British . I await posts about some dishes (other than pudding) that came with or without these foodstuffs.  ...
  1 week ago

• Gingerbread Pear Cake (And the History of Gingerbread)

  
  Baking and Books — Authority: 444
  Gingerbread is one of those holiday treats that shouldnt be restricted to the months of November and December. Dont you agree? And yet, it does have a special appeal during the cooler months. Theres nothing quite like beginning a crisp November morning with a confectioners sugar dusted piece of gingerbread, perhaps ...
  1 week ago

• Thousand Island Dressing

  
  The Greasy Spoon — Authority: 118
  I suppose theres something a bit tacky about the ubiquitous Thousand Island Dressing . Its that thick, slightly synthetic pink stuff which comes in jars, served alongside burgers and dubious salads. But like other classic foods, its got an interesting history. There are various theories. Heres one of them: A certain ...
  1 week ago

• fruit, tree, stone…..

  
  gimcrack hospital (PG) — Authority: 467
  image found here Different cultures view marriage in different ways. The Newar people of Nepal marry their young girls to bel-fruits. A majority of Newars observe the symbolically arranged marriage of their daughters with a bel fruit before they ever marry a man. The bel fruit marriage is done when the ...
  1 week ago

• Delicious and Informative Morsels: SixTaste Little Tokyo Tour

  
  ExperienceLA Blog - Experiencing LA Arts and Culture — Authority: 113
  Negitoro Don Sample (Photo courtesy of plushcattech) Ending my week-long birthday celebration, I went on the Six Taste Little Tokyo Food Walking Tour. It had been many years since I had visited Little Tokyo, and I was refreshing my memory of Japanese customs as well as getting to know more about Los Angeles. ...
  1 week ago

• The Right to Be a Child

  
  Ramblingspoon.com || Karen Coates — Authority: 119
  Two Indian boys, the children of tea plantation workers in Darjeeling, gather plant trimmings they will use to heat their homes. During winter months, the tea plants are dormant, but plantation workers trim the dead branches for fuel. This week marks 20 years since the United Nations adopted the Convention on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Own Private Alchemy

  
  this ain't livin' — Authority: 548
  copyright meloukhia The person who taught me to eat a pomegranate was fairy-like, looking like she had stepped from the canvas of a romantic painting. Slight, sandy hair, large eyes, with a sad and sometimes dreamy expression that narrowed into intent focus on the day she introduced me to the fruit of the Punica ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bread first or beer first? A bad question

  
  Rachel Laudan — Authority: 419
  I should never say what I will write on next, I have discovered.  I am invariably sidetracked. And this time it’s by commentators who raise the fifty-year old question: which came first, bread or beer. Now the very possibility that we brewed beer before we baked bread sounds–well–it sounds sexy.  How ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taking the diet out of “diet foods”

  
  The-F-Word.org — Authority: 491
  Im sitting at my favorite local indie coffeehouse staring at a large plate of cottage cheese and fresh fruit atop a bed of leafy greens paired with a side of steaming spiced apples and wishing I had my camera because the presentation is as much artistic as it is yummy. That its menu is vegetarian-friendly is one of ...
  2 weeks ago

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