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An Interview with Christina Ward, author of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat—An American History
Christina Ward is an independent cultural historian of food and food history, exploring what we eat and why we eat it. She is the author of American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O, and Preservation-The … Continue reading
An Interview with Judith Tschann, author of Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day
Judith Tschann is medievalist and Professor Emerita at the University of Redlands where she courses the History of the English Language, English literature, and Food in Literature, among others. She has a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and has received … Continue reading
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An Interview with Valerie Fridland, author of Like, Literally, Dude
Valerie Fridland is a professor of English at the University of Nevada in Reno. She has has a PhD in sociolinguistics from Michigan State University, and is an expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in … Continue reading
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What I’m reading: Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through its languages
Peggy Mohan’s Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through its languages is a fascinating history of the languages of India. There are two key, intersecting themes: one is the idea that existing local language form a forming a substratum, … Continue reading
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