The Gift of the Bees: Mead
With a small tweak of the imagination, it’s not hard to see the scenario: a little rain and some honey …
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Panning for Gold: Harvesting Honey
Left to their own devices, bees usually built their hives in hollowed-out trees or other such spaces. Through the centuries, …
Honey, a Taste Sweeter Than Wine
THE BEE. Like trains of cars on tracks of plush I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers …
Idylls of Cuisine #32
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
To Balance, Strength, Love, Faith, and Hope:* Jehangir Mehta’s Mantra
Reflecting the ayurvedic principle of balance, chef Jehangir Mehta’s cookbook, Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence (2008), carries the imaginative use …
Medicine (and Food) in Medieval England: A Select Bibliography
Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food. Hippocrates Food and medicine, always intertwined in the human …
Boarding House Food in Lagos, Nigeria
In Africa, boarding houses enjoy a popularity resembling that of the nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries in the USA, for the …
Good Golly, Miss Molly: Mary Randolph’s Boarding House
In March, 1808, readers of The Richmond Virginia Gazette would have read the following advertisement in the pages of that …
Boarding Houses, Fodder for Popular Culture
Boarding houses, a slice of the folkloric American food story … American food icon James Beard grew up in an …
The Chinese in the West: How Railroad Coolies Ate
Until our own times, the nineteenth century saw some of the most profound changes in social structure and population movements …
