Assimilating “The Other”
Leslie Page Moch, author of Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe Since 1650 (1992, Indiana U. Press), has written another …
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The Surprising French Kitchen
One of the best things about owning a lot of books is that I tend to forget what I have. …
Tasting France in Senegal
The ocean there, it’s infinite, a place where horizon and water meet like a seam in a dress, a little …
Who were the Cooks? What We Know (More or Less) about Kitchen Servants (1)
While studying The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (Steel and Gardiner, 1888), I found the instructions concerning servants a fascinating …
Eating Black Beauty,* Or, Horsemeat, a Taboo That Became a French Stereotype
Taboo: A custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing. One …
Ivan Day: Master Food Historian
Those of you with a tremendous love of food history will be happy to know that Ivan Day blogs with …
Rationing and the Black Market in Nazi-Occupied France: Some Thoughts
“Life is hard (On vit mal). Everyone grows thinner. A kilo of butter costs one thousand francs. A kilo of …
It Might Be a Stereotype, but ….
I love this picture of a snail. Like many mollusks, snails seem to have been eaten in substantial quantities by …
France and the Food of War : I
Food offers us so much – nourishment, familial connections, status, comfort, security, and – above all – survival. Truth be …
Let Me Count the Ways: St. Valentine’s Day 101 (Yes, There’s a French Connection)
Remember the old shoeboxes for valentines in your grade school classroom? How you’d decorate your box with all sorts of …
