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Morning trains disgorge their commuters into the city — white men in suits. Departing trains take Black souls to service white suburban privilege. At dusk...
Cookbook and recipe writers began calling for different varieties — sometimes, maddeningly, in the same recipe.
Cookbook and recipe writers began calling for different varieties — sometimes, maddeningly, in the same recipe.
Melissa Clark's exploration takes us through the history of salt, emphasizing its cultural and culinary significance. Understanding the unique characteristics of different salts, such as kosher salt, common sea salt, and traditional sea salts like fleur de sel and sel gris, provides insight into their applications in cooking.
A compelling way to renew the study of our collective past. In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of dependency theory. That theory, associated with the German American economic historian Andre Gunder Frank, the Guyanese historian Walter Rodney and the Argentine and Brazilian economists Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, among others, emphasized the historical role of colonialism and imperialism in creating unequal economic relations between count...