Last year I was diagnosed with a food allergy.  The condition is celiac disease, which is an intolerance to anything containing gluten (which is anything made from wheat). Celiac disease is one of a number of food allergies that seem … Continue reading →

Concentration Camp Cookbooks After a while it got so that you had to be a little cautious about talking about good food because guys were getting on edge.  They’d bust you if you mentioned something [about food]….Food was the biggest … Continue reading →

Review: Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century, by Laura Shapiro (New York: North Point Press, 1986) Perfection Salad is a classic food history book that looks at a major shift in ideas about food that … Continue reading →

Last Monday I took a look at the two versions of the creation of Coca-Cola: the version the Coke company has on their web page, and the much longer version presented in the book A History of the World in … Continue reading →

This is a two-part article that looks at the story of the creation of Coca-Cola. Today I’m looking at the two versions of the story, and Wednesday I’ll look at why there are two different stories out there. As befits … Continue reading →