Posts related to food history
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24 May 2010 - To savor: The Last Chinese Chef
Two of my favorite things in life are good food and good books. A delicious novel about food? Now we’re talking. Nicole Mones’ The Last Chinese Chef (Houghton Mifflin, 20087) is a love story about a recently widowed food writer who visits Beijing to settle a mysterious claim against her late husband’s estate. While in China, [...]
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10 November 2009 - Fascinating Talks: Carolyn Steel- How Food Shapes Our Cities
How do you feed a city? It’s one of the great questions of our time. Yet it’s one that’s rarely asked. We take it for granted that if we go into a shop or restaurant… there’s going to be food there waiting for us, having magically come from somewhere. But when you think that every [...]
