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The Still Spooky Post-1970s-Poisoning History of Pixy Stix
This newsletter centers on research related to my new scholarly adventure, a podcast about true crime and food history called Outlaw’s Digest. So far, we’ve published an episode about the 20th-century political history of pieing and anoth...
Feeling Salty
As a food scholar trained by some of the best folklorists in the field, I’m excited to start today’s little food history lesson with a folk song!
This is “Le Complainte de Mandrin (Mandrin’s Plaint),” a folk song (une chanson populaire) p...
In Pie We Crust
Throughout the course of my food studies research career, I have come across a handful of characters who absolutely deserved a pie to the face. Historical antagonists such as anti-suffrage campaigners who claimed that women just didn’t want...
On the Menu: October
Whether you call it spooky season, Hoa Hoa Hoa time, or Gilmore Girls weather, this time of year always makes me want to curl up with my favorite food history reads deep in the archives. Alas, there’s more on my monthly menu, but that means...
The Practical Magic of Making Cake
“In this house we have chocolate cake for breakfast.” - Franny Owens
As a child obsessed with the craft and cake, it always bothered me that the witchy aunts in the 1998 Practical Magic film talk big talk about serving chocolate cake for b...
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Food & culture scholar (PhD). Currently working on a book about cake history. Read PENKNIFE for bite-sized bits of research, recipes, & food history. Listen to OUTLAW'S DIGEST podcast for a feast of malfeasance and felony.
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