The banyan announced something about the inner mind and character of the man who wore it.

We began with only a rudimentary idea of how to build the wall.

One of the most common printed images of the first half of the nineteenth century was also the one of […]

“[I]n late March, just days before Plimoth Plantation’s village of 1627 was to come to life for the 2001 season, the museum’s 130 head of livestock were rounded up and removed to a modern breeding barn at the back of the property.”

Is there anything more ludicrous than the present day barbeque contests in which contestants are prohibited from supplying meat that might be more sapid than those of their fellows?

“Face-to-face interpersonal relations took on far more importance in this society than abstract, impersonal economic relations, symbolized by commercial paper (whose origin might be unknown) or distant banks.”

At a slim forty-seven pages and mere twenty centimeters high, the weightiest thing about the 1770 book, Directions for the […]

Indians and English people shared a measure of common ground in their understanding of animals.

David Shields’s book about Southern foodways contains the seeds of many future conversations.

Pigeons—like some other breeds of birds—were easy to hunt, indeed, so easy that the hunt couldn’t be sustainable.

I set out to make something totally arcane relevant.

In essence, what is taken as the fruit of the fig is its flower.

Linnaeus, sitting at home in Uppsala while his students traveled all over the world collecting natural objects for him, could be quite peevish and demanding.

The contents of the issue fulfill the imperatives of the new Food Studies: to view eating as an agricultural act

Menard is not alone in arguing for a reevaluation of the sugar revolution. But what he, as one of the most esteemed historians of the Atlantic economy, offers is a lucid and at times devastatingly simple case that makes it unmistakably clear that sugar alone did not revolutionize Barbados in the seventeenth century.

When horticulturists began developing varieties of the European roots, their delectability for animals mattered as much as their taste as human food.

Heroic in its synthesizing, perhaps, but not in its style, this book conceives of people lifelessly and in the aggregate.

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