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 …
Category Archives: Asia
Heat and Dust and Cooks: The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
“The tale of the British in India holds keys to the universal story of colonization. A no-nonsense book, The Complete Indian …
The Roger Smith Cookbook Conference
Just a reminder that you will be able to see some 10 of the 28 sessions live and for free …
Apples in French Indochina: Chapa (Sa Pa) – The Phantom Hill Station in Vietnam
In looking at pictures of the former French colonial hill station of Sa Pa/Sapa (formerly called Chapa by French colonizers), …
The French in Indochina: Caricatures and Satire
In 1912, André Joyeux published a most interesting book, La Vie Large des Colonies, filled with satirical caricatures of the …
Saigon, Indochine 1947: Marchés (Markets)
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Me, Etc.
Dear readers of Gherkins & Tomatoes /Cornichons & Tomates, Soon I will embark on a great adventure, doing research on …
Eating Around the Empire in a Day: The 1931 Paris International Colonial Exposition
To her sons who have extended the empire of her genius and made dear her name across the seas, France …
To India, via Paris’s Le Passage Brady
In spite of French presence in India for a couple of centuries, trying to find Indian curry in France tends …
East is East and West is West: Pondicherry and French Curry
In Pondicherry, Pondichéry, or Puducherry as it is now called again (since 2006), you still see streets sparkling with old …
