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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Brassai’s Paris, a View Through the Tunnel of Time

January 8, 2011

Before the second world war, filled with the wandering souls of the “Lost Generation,” Paris throbbed with the fluttering notes …

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La Malbouffe, Oui ou Non? Fast (Ethnic) Food and the French

January 5, 2011

If you saw the following headline  pop up on one of the many news feeds streaming into thousands of computers …

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The Things They Carried*: Brief Glimpses of French Food in Vietnam

January 3, 2011

In the film, “Indochine,” you sense the rampant orientalism that made Edward Said one of the most quoted scholars on …

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