By Shana Klein, author of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion
Still-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight. Pictures of bowls bulging with oranges and grapes were fashionable in nineteenth-century American dining rooms...
Given the realities of the current shelter in place, audiobooks offer an alternative way to access books. Several UC Press recent and noteworthy releases are available as audiobooks ranging from Dreamers and Schemers, which explores William May (Billy) Garland’s quest to host the Olympics...
By Robert N. Spengler III, author of Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
This post originally appeared on robertnspengler.com and is repurposed as part of our blog series for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, January 4-6 in New York. #AH...
The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in...