Curiosity about daily life and food and culture at home and elsewhere
curious about food and agricultural traditions in the wider world; striving to keep my beginner's mind open. Author of books of travel stories and recipes, including The Miracle of Salt, Taste of Persia, and Burma.
CulturesGroup is an ongoing multi-media event about food, culture, health politics, preservation, food politics, fermentation, upcycling, semiotics and regeneration. Watch videos, access book/paper reviews, and read posts by becoming a paid subscriber.
Essays weaving food and culture, memory, history and politics together.
Weekly banter from my kitchen porch: food, wine, people, places, Maine, the Mediterranean, the whole wide world.
Cookstory is a show-and-tell way of looking at how people cook at home all over the world. The images are based on my own watercolour sketches collected over a lifetime of travelling with my paintbox.