The Roger Smith Cookbook Conference
To brighten up a dreary February in 2011, a group of food scholars and cookbook writers started a cookbook conference. …
Category Archives: Asia
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 …
