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News and Opinion

Coverage of food history since October 29, 2020.

Eric Akis: Giving thanks for the club sandwich

"...According to the food history website whatscookingamerica. net, the most popular theory is that the club the sandwich was first served at, circa 1894, was the famous Saratoga Club-House, located in Saratoga Springs, New York. A place where something you might serve with a sandwich was also invented, potato chips..."

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Chip and Joanna Gaines step up to help lead a new TV network

"...Andrew Zimmern, an Emmy and four-time James Beard Award winning TV chef, signed on to host "Family Dinner," in which he visits families across America to hear their stories and explore their food history. He's known the Gaines for many years..."

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A saucy history of the tomato

"...Once considered a killer, the tomato changed the course of food history when used to honour royalty and it was both an aphrodisiac and a tax evasion tool for decades. And you thought the popular red produce was boring. By all accounts, the tomato grew wild in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, where they were called “tomatl..."

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Food and Trauma: Anthropologies of Memory and Postmemory

"...The aim of this interdisciplinary article is to synthesize available knowledge on this topic by engaging with research literature in fields such as food history, anthropology, sociology, and psychiatry as well as autobiographical works, cookbooks, etc..."

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