Behold the Humble but Mighty Potato
By its very modest and humble nature, the potato has served as both an indicator of low-class status and a threat to the ruling class, Rebecca Earle argues in Object Lessons’ Potato.
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Making Dinner Is Also About Making Choices
Amy B. Trubek's Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today makes the familiar compellingly strange as meals become complex processes of self, other, and culture.