First published in Gastronomica 5:2, Spring 2005 Bruce Boehrer, writing in a recent issue of Gastronomica, sought to answer the question why parrot has disappeared from the world table. The substantial part of his argument is as follows: ‘Prior to 1492 there existed a tradition of classical psittacophagy (parrot eating), interrupted by the relative scarcity …
Diggings 23 November 2019
The Instant Pot Understands. The History of Women's Labor In The Kitchen I have bought more gadgets than I care to remember that promised to make me a better cook, a faster cook, a healthier cook. I own other devices — the microwave being the most obvious — that assume I don’t want to touch …
Diggings 27 October 2019
Fictitious Dishes: Elegant and Imaginative Photographs of Meals from Famous Literature Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals (public library|IndieBound) — an ingenious project by designer and writer Dinah Fried, who cooks, art-directs, and photographs meals from nearly two centuries of famous fiction. Each photograph is accompanied by the particular passage in which the …
Diggings 31st July 2019
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner // Supercut A link to a fun, lovely montage of food images from the anime films of Studio Gibhli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK-I6LxXJsA&fbclid=IwAR2nIMKDGfZ1qjZtjPtb9wsO-v9hqMOzVCRLp3tiH6VcGxfPQtTE9P_Sja8 #couscousforcomment: the hashtag shaming Instagrammers who demand free food 'Allira Carroll, the managing director of Tonic PR, which represents hospitality clients, says she does use influencers in marketing a restaurant but …
