Cake Filled with Cabbage: buttery, sweet and savory. In the early 20th century, a group Jewish people believed that the less meat you ate, the closer you would be to god. By refraining from eating meat and fish, one could avoid … Continue reading
Each month, MSG takes on a curious food topic and breaks down the history, science, and stories behind it. In this podcast, Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour will give you a run-down of vegetarianism in the west. From … Continue reading
You can subscribe to MSG Podcasts on Itunes here! and Huffduffer here! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182623568″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Sarah covers the history of Chinese take out, whisking you away on a tour of Chinatown a century ago, where chop … Continue reading
Masters of Social Gastronomy: Fake Meat! Tuesday, April 24, 7pm Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg FREE! RSVP HERE Each month, MSG takes on a curious food topic and breaks down the history, science, and stories behind it. Accept no … Continue reading
Breakfast Apples; Pecans; Bananas and Cream; Unfired wafers; seeded raisins; milk For breakfast, I had a big heaping bowl of sliced apples, bananas, and chopped pecans. Lunch Apples; Pecans; Celery Salad; Unfired Crackers; Chestnuts; Date and nut Butter; Dates; Persimmons with … Continue reading
Weight amongst the high and low classes; from Never Satisfied: A Culutural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat Here’s my menu for tonight’s lecture, Reducing Recipes: Historic Remedies for Your Expanding Waistline. If you’re in the NYC area, you can get … Continue reading
UPDATE: the Nat Hist Museum has a post up on their blog about the Diet Talk (see below). It’s full of all kinds of fun information that I’ll be talking about. Check it out here. Reducing Recipes: American Weight-Loss Trends Where: The American … Continue reading
Muesli. Ewwsli. Today I moved from 1910 to 1945, the year that the first cookbook to use the word “vegan” was published: Vegan Recipes. This book is tremendously hard to find; in the day and age of the Internet, one … Continue reading
Breakfast Cereal with Almond Milk and Banana Lunch Spinach Soup no. 2 Toast Dinner Nut Roast Roasted Squash Apple Bread Baked Banana To begin the day, we took it easy with a choice of two cereals: Kellogg’s Corn Flakes (invented … Continue reading
The first issue of “Vegan News,” from 1944. Bid farewell to meat, dairy and eggs. For the next five days, I’ll be going historically vegan. Historically vegan, you say? Why yes! Veganism has at least a 100-year history. To … Continue reading