2.
Peanut butter4 on white bread5
Banana6
Glass of milk7
3.
Oysters8
Cod9 sautéed in olive oil10
Potatoes11 with salt12
Beer, wine, liquor, coffee, tea, and a Coke13
- “the drink that changed the world” ↩
- “transformed our world” ↩
- “an American passion” but also “an edible symbol of Canadianness” ↩
- “the story of peanut butter is the story of twentieth-century America” ↩
- “what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to look like” ↩
- “the fruit that changed the world” ↩
- “Got milk? If so, then you’ve got a whole lot else in your fridge as well: a hope, a duty, a highly regulated product, a carton of controversy, and a hand in industrializing America’s farms” ↩
- “the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled” ↩
- “the fish that changed the world” ↩
- “a story of globalization, deception, and crime in the food industry from ancient times to the present, and a powerful indictment of today’s lax protections against fake and even toxic food products in the United States” ↩
- “rescued the Western world” and also “had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile” ↩
- “salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning” ↩
- “the six drinks that have helped shape human history” ↩
Tags: changing the world, food, meals, ruth graham
Great. Now I’m afraid to eat anything ever.
“the Donut: A Canadian History” played a not insignificant role in my nascent relationship with my husband. Everyone read it!
Ha! I love it! Glad you are looking out for us and making changing the world easy!
Y’all are hitting it out of the park with your food posts and will be putting me and my humble food culture blog out of bizniss.
Your blog is amazing! I took a quick glance at work, and I can’t wait to get home and give it a proper read. I was looking at foodways as a central part of me MA (until I dropped out) and I am really interested to see what you are doing.
You are so nice! Do you have any interest in writing about food, by the way? I am a contributor for another food site but I am not going to renew my contract with them after October, so they might be looking for other submissions. (It pays, but not very much.)
Huh! I might be! I haven’t done anything not academic, but expanding horizons, etc etc. I was studying cookbooks and communities.
I hate doughnuts.
It felt good to get that out there.
I’ve also never drank a glass of milk in my entire 32 years.
you’re not missing anything.
Milk is GROSS.
I hate doughnuts, too!
Uuuugh I’m gonna be up all night from all that caffeine, feeling like crap from all that alcohol.
You are so nice! Do you have any interest in writing about food, by the way? I am a contributor for another food site but I am not going to renew my contract with them after October, so they might be looking for other submissions. (It pays, but not very much.)
Don’t forget Niall Ferguson’s great work on the scone: http://bit.ly/thescone
EAT THESE MEALS AND ABSORB THEIR POWER
OK, but seriously, both Mark Kurlansky books above (Salt and Cod) are really excellent. I picked up Salt in a random assortment at a used book store and couldn’t put it down.
Also have I mentioned that apples are gross?
Have to disagree. Really didn’t love Salt (and am inclined to love any book about food ever), and got the suspicion (unexplored but seriously suggested by the [over] treatment of one cured fish in Salt) that there would be a lot of overlap between it and Cod. I thought Salt was full of interesting anecdotes but didn’t appropriately amount to anything more than a collection of vaguely related articles without much global structure to help it hang together.
Also, apples are the shit.