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Book Reviews, Food History

Book Review: Taco USA by Gustavo Arellano

October 4, 2017 No Comments
Cover of Taco USA by Gustavo Arellano

Mexican food is hugely popular in the United States — salsa has been outselling ketchup for years, some of the fastest growing restaurant chains sell Mexican food, the taco truck craze is at its peak — but it took a many years and many innovators for this to happen. Gustavo Arellano’s Taco USA: How Mexican […]

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Book Review: “The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger,” by Marc Levinson

September 13, 2015 No Comments

From Chaos to Order If you watched a ship loading or unloading in the early 1950s, it wouldn’t look that much different than it would have in the 1850s or even the ancient world. Sure, the port of 1950 might have forklifts and motorized cranes, but like long ago nearly every piece of cargo would […]

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Book Reviews, Yoga

Book Review: “The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America,” by Stefanie Syman

May 12, 2013 1 Comment

People have been debating yoga’s purpose, its scope, and how to practice it for centuries. So not surprisingly, the history of yoga in America is also convoluted and complicated. Stefanie Syman, in “The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), makes a great effort to explain yoga’s place in […]

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Two Short Book Reviews: World History by Beverages and Spices

February 7, 2007 1 Comment

(Updated, 11/27/16: fixed broken links) After the jump, short reviews of A History of the World in Six Glasses, by Tom Standage and Jack Turner’s Spice: The History of a Temptation.

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