Winter 2020 Newsletter
In This Edition: That Lovely, Repellent Scent; Program Notes; LA Events; A Letter from the Editor; What is Cock Ale?; The History of Chicken and Waffles; Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the...
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In This Edition I Speak for Mutton Program Notes LA Events A Letter from the Editor Why Aren’t Figs Considered Vegan? EatSeeGo/ Foodie Lunches Big Brains, Small Guts and the Politics of Meat For Kids...
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In This Edition Land of Baklava Program Notes LA Events A Letter from the Editor Story of the Popsicle Food Landscapes Lemonade and the Plague Candy Quiz Susan Orleans Ignites Library Love Mapping...
View ArticleBattle Creek, California by Charles Perry
Battle Creek, California By Charles Perry A hundred years ago Los Angeles was becoming famous as the capital of a new school of extreme diet in competition with Battle Creek, Mich., which had always...
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In This Edition Badmouthing Your Grub Program Notes LA Events A Letter from the Editor The Wedding Cake Toss Obviously Instagram and Food Photography are a Match Made in Heaven Traveling This Summer?...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Menu? by Charles Perry
It would be interesting to read Alison Pearlman’s May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion side by side with a book by another L.A. writer, Jim Heimann, such as May I Take Your...
View ArticleMajor Medieval! by Charles Perry
There’s great big news in Middle Eastern food history. Persian cuisine — the most influential in history, deeply affecting the Arab world, Central Asia and Northern India — is shockingly all but...
View ArticleSeta and Alec Ekmekji – Aleppo: Culture and Cuisine
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View ArticleAndrew F. Smith – Pizza History: Fact and Fiction
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View ArticleRichard Foss – Food on the Westward Trail
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View ArticleJosh Lurie–Decoding the LA Restaurant Scene: 20 Years Past and Future
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View ArticleGeorge Geary–The History of Crazy Foods from the Boardwalk to the Midway
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View ArticleJosh Donald–A Brief History of Knives: Japanese Culinary Knives and the West
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View ArticleHow to Make Imitation Soy Sauce by Charles Perry
As we know (and by “we,” I merely mean people who happen to know this), Chinese soy sauce is made by infecting boiled soybeans with a mold called Aspergillus sojae and then soaking them in salty water...
View ArticleHappy Simnel Day by Charles Perry
Back in the ’70s, when I was working in San Francisco, a shower of foodies arrived from Boston, many of them (such as the renowned Jeremiah Tower) recent graduates of Harvard Architecture School. They...
View ArticleJim Dodge-My Life in Pastry
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View ArticleDining Like a Sultan by Charles Perry
When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, a rough nation of warriors decided to settle down a little (though their armies actually kept conquering for another two centuries) and enjoy...
View ArticleJoan Nathan–Jewish Food: In the American South and Around the World
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View ArticleCharles Perry-So You’re Dining with the Persian Emperor
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View ArticleBattle Creek, California by Charles Perry
Battle Creek, California By Charles Perry A hundred years ago Los Angeles was becoming famous as the capital of a new school of extreme diet in competition with Battle Creek, Mich., which had always...
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