"Fakelore" in Food History
From the Origins of the Croissant, to Marco Polo as Noodle Ambassador.
In researching The Lost Supper, in which I dig into Homo sapiens’ relationship with food going back to the Paleolithic, I encountered a lot of what the late food historian Alan Davidson diplomatically termed “culinary mythology.” Th…
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