"/>A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
A new Eat This Newsletter: the other shoe drops on lead in cinnamon; rye in Scandinavia and the recent oldest bread, which requires a small qualifier; doubts about agricultural subsidies that “that when reached will make them redundant”; and a history of British pies https://
Interesting to read Devastatia's IndieWeb Carnival entry, which opens with an account of The Breakfast Club, the day after we saw The Holdovers. We were talking about great high school movies of the past, and of course TBC was among them (also If, The History Boys etc). As a Boomer, I wonder how those and The Holdovers (set in 1971) come across to recent generations.
Very interesting personal history from @benwerd ... and here I remain, ready and willing to move from one-off donations to paying a real price for WithKnown.
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Finished reading: English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss, ISBN: 9780007255566
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Currently reading: English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss, ISBN: 9780007255566
#Non-fiction
Primed for Power: A Short Cultural History of Protein downloaded and ready to be read. Thanks @jessfanzo for the link to https://
Huge congratulations to Chris Otter, whose fascinating book Diet for a Large Planet has just won the AHA Bentley Prize in World History. We had a great chat about how the British created global food outsourcing and made it was it is today.
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Thanks Aaron for your mention of my wheat and bread podcasts. You raise an interesting question about aboriginal bread in Australia. I've listened to a podcast with Bruce Pascoe and read a general piece that was awfully muddled, but I have not read his book. I have no reason not to take his claims at face value, although I also think that the freight he is adding to those claims owes as much to the general status and recent past history of aboriginal people in Australia as it does to archaeology. I will certainly be including something in the book I am working on.
Episode 01 of my contribution to Dog Days of Podcasting is up. [The Abundance of Nature](https://
I'm going to be exploring the history of wheat and bread every day in August.