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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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Summer 2019 Newsletter

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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Winter 2019 Newsletter

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...

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Battle 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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Summer 2018 Newsletter

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?...

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What’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...

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Major 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...

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Seta and Alec Ekmekji – Aleppo: Culture and Cuisine

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Andrew F. Smith – Pizza History: Fact and Fiction

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Richard Foss – Food on the Westward Trail

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Josh Lurie–Decoding the LA Restaurant Scene: 20 Years Past and Future

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George Geary–The History of Crazy Foods from the Boardwalk to the Midway

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Josh Donald–A Brief History of Knives: Japanese Culinary Knives and the West

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How 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...

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Happy 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...

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Jim Dodge-My Life in Pastry

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Dining 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...

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Joan Nathan–Jewish Food: In the American South and Around the World

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Charles Perry-So You’re Dining with the Persian Emperor

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Battle 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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