01/06/2014
Category: Foodstuffs
Notes and commentary from the table.
12/05/2013
A Spoonful of Sugar
"Sweets" might sound like a tame recipe booklet, but the tale of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is actually pretty creepy.
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10/02/2013
Hot Hamburger Water
Why being sick in the late 1800s sucked, and not just because you were more likely to die.
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08/30/2013
Dinner Roles
A progressive future for women
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07/18/2013
The Culinary Triangle
What can Claude Lévi-Strauss teach us about food fads today?
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07/05/2013
From the Lobster Palace
Revisiting the history of one of the East Coast's most ritzy ingredients.
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06/26/2013
Taking the Cake
A reverse chronological history of the wedding feast centerpiece.
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06/21/2013
A Plateful of Penitence
Freedom’s just another word for not having to eat Nutraloaf.
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06/03/2013
Rarebit Dreams
Welsh rarebit has been around and (possibly) inducing nightmares for centuries. But there's more behind the historic dish than just cheese on toast.
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05/16/2013