Description: historian, always hungry
Reading an article about international affairs today, I was stopped short by an interesting, food-focused turn of phrase. John Wolfsthal, a former senior program director at the National Security Council under Barak Obama explained, “We don’t know what Kim Jong-un has for breakfast, so how can we know what his real end game is? We just… Continue reading Breakfast of Dictators
I was very happy that the New York Times decided to publish a write-up of my new book and even more happy that it was in company with two other books that tackle the complexities of how we define and think about Southern food. As Americans think hard about what cultural appropriation is and how it… Continue reading Food on the Page in the New York Times
Here it is! The thing I have been working on for a very long time. It’s out now, from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Click the picture for publication info.