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Empires, Cannibals, and Magic Fish Bones

Empires, Cannibals, and Magic Fish Bones

Join us as we celebrate food, the dinner table, and quite likely empires, cannibals and magic fish bones!

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  • Thomas Jefferson And La Fruta Del Diablo: The Promise And Problems Of Harvesting Food
  • Traveling Through Food Wastelands, Blended Scotch, Uncle Tupelo, And Onto Good Soil.
  • Unsettling America
  • Thoughts Toward A Lecture In North Carolina: A Swan, Bride, And Fatal Banquet.
  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Jefferson’s Very Small Batch Bourbon, And Grits.

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The Anatomical Theater: Skin And Flesh
Posted on February 13, 2016

The Anatomical Theater: Skin And Flesh

Look at it.  So beautiful.  Firm, bright color, everything you would want. Consider Harold McGee’s view of skin in On Food and Cooking. Usually cooks don’t welcome large amounts of toughening connective tissue in meat.  But taken on their own, animal skin, cartilage, and bones are valuable exactly because they’re mostly connective tissue and therefor … Continue reading The Anatomical Theater: Skin And Flesh

The Anatomical Theater: Bones
Posted on February 2, 2016February 2, 2016

The Anatomical Theater: Bones

It’s November 8, 1895, late at night, and Wilhelm Röntgen, Professor of Physics in Worzburg, Bavaria sits in a dark room.  He’s enclosed a discharge tube in a sealed, thick, black carton.  He lifts a paper plate covered on one side with barium platinocyanide in front of the discharge tube and the plate turns fluorescent. … Continue reading The Anatomical Theater: Bones

The Ark Of Corn, Uncle Tupelo, And Red Wattle Pigs.
Posted on September 26, 2014

The Ark Of Corn, Uncle Tupelo, And Red Wattle Pigs.

Above our heads in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo offers us a calm, High Renaissance view of mass extinction; whereas, The Flood (1588) by Kaspar the Elder Memberger has a darker tone. Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, with all your household, for you alone have I found righteous before Me in … Continue reading The Ark Of Corn, Uncle Tupelo, And Red Wattle Pigs.

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