North America
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New Year Luck and the Black-Eyed Pea
While many plantation owners relied heavily on the agricultural knowledge, labor organization, and crop‑specific skills of enslaved people, owners and contemporary histories often minimize, ignore, or reframe that expertise. The History This post…
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The Foods of Turtle Island & Rabbit Soup
“through these foods, we tell the story of who we are, where we came from, and wherewe can go from here” p. 15.
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Echoes of War: Food, Family, and the Legacy of WWII. Part 1: Soldier’s Sustenance: The WWII Experiences and Food Memories of Ralph D. Skadsen
Over the last several years my good friend Ben and I have repeatedly been brought back to conversations around our grandparents, WWII, the Holocaust, and food. While at first, food might seem out…
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All mischief comes after All Hallow; the Origins of Halloween, Samhain, and an Irish Feast
How fit our well-rank’d Feasts do follow/ All mischief comes after All Hallow -Richard Crashaw For this post, we made Shepards Pie a la Alton Brown, a dish commonly attributed to the United…
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Macaroni *Doodle* Pie, insights into the History of Mac and Cheese
There is a lot of mythology around pasta. Macaroni was invented in Rome, pasta in Naples. Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy. Thomas Jefferson brought Mac and Cheese to America. Like most topics…
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The Three Sisters: Green Chile Stew and Frybread
For this post, I decided to journey to the Four Corners. The four corners references where the states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet. Archaeologically, this is an amazing region. In…
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A New Orleans Mardi Gras King Cake
Versions of the famous King Cake, a circular shaped, cinnamon pastry, filled with cream, praline, cream cheese, or other sweet confections, covered in frosting and then decorated with purple, green, and gold sugar,…
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Pupusas and the Pipil
I first had the pleasure of eating pupusas when working at Ceren, a World Heritage archaeological site in El Salvador. The pupusa is a staple dish in El Salvador and can be eaten…
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Pan de Muerto
October of 2020 I decided to honor Day of the Dead by embarking on making the delicious Mexican sweet bread pan de muerto. Day of the Dead is perhaps Mexico’s most famous holiday.…
