A fascinating article by Abbas Asaria in The Guardian today about the proliferation of pork-based products in Spanish food and the link to the Inquisition. This makes sense, but even more fascinating is how this turns…
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Food and violence
Michael Shaikh’s “The Last Sweet Bite” is a fascinating exploration of how conflict changes how and what people eat. And food has so much to do with identity, so this is, for me, a book…
Food in the Anthropocene
Food. A gift and a challenge. Too cheap (considering effort, lives lost, practices, implications to humans, animals and the planet alike), and too expensive and limited (global poverty is real and millions have too little…
Ginger Balls
Alexina Anatole has a recipe the The Guardian today for Pear and ginger overnight oats. Reading the comments, ofyen the best part of many of these articles, someone mentioned loving “ginger balls” ( with necessary…