Link Buffet: Bravura Performances
Heads up! I enjoyed the junk food soigné Instagram of Chef Jacques la Merde so much (linked here and here) that you can probably imagine how delighted I am to learn […]
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Link Buffet: Wine, Women, and Tomme
At NPR: How Suffragists Used Cookbooks as a Recipe for Subversion: Perhaps the most fascinating of these cookbooks came from Pittsburgh in 1915. The Suffrage Cook Book was a sumptuous […]
Link Buffet: Hints and Notes
A couple blog notes: I added a “Chronologies” page to my Bibliographies tab, and I’ll add more permanent timelines or histories as I come across them. One of the links […]
Food Music Playlist #9: Strawberry Jams
Strawberries, roses, and chocolate: the trifecta of Valentine’s Day foods. Roses and chocolate both have long histories of romantic and sexual connotations, so it’s not surprising that they remain popular […]
Link Buffet: Processing and progressing
Readers and friends! I’ve missed connecting with you on this platform. January has been an incredibly busy month for me, as I wrapped up my responsibilities at the university press […]
Link Buffet: Rants and Rhapsodies
I enjoyed the lamb fennel tajine so much that I’m still talking about it, this time in more detail at the Penn Press Log. The recipe came from our new book Scheherazade’s Feasts, a […]
The Winestain in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin describes the “aura” that might be held by a unique work of art. The term “aura” is […]
