culinary history
A Guide to the Demons Found in Your Bowl of Spaghetti
Your bowl of pasta is a witches’ brew, filled not just with herbs and spices but with a panoply of spiritually charged ingredients—some inherently evil, others more ambiguous, and some that will literally ward off the devil.
The Long, Weird History and Mythology of Oyster Ice Cream
The genuine mystery and historical revisionism of that first Thanksgiving in Plymouth has led to an unending quest to uncover authentic-but-little-known Thanksgiving dishes—such as oyster ice cream.
Ole Missus vs. Mammy: Who Owns Southern Food?
A response to Cynthia Bertelsen's “Edna Lewis and the Mythology Behind Modern Southern Food.”
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