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Month: November 2019

Posted on November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

Antipodean Psittacophagy

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 …

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Posted on November 23, 2019

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 …

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