Au marché
What might catch your eye at the marketplace? A load of grapes being taken from or hoisted onto a harvester’s back? A pickpocket? Someone’s grocery basket despite the snowstorm? The shopper over there? That child [...]
Boycotting Sugar Produced by Enslaved People
“Dr. Knowles, a physician of worthy character in London, had occasion to recommend a diet to a patient, of which sugar composed a material part. His patient refused to submit to his prescription, and gave [...]
« Quelque grain à l’oiseau, pour qu’il chante en sa cage »
If one comes across a couplet and a painting that, each in its own way, bind together food, power, exchange, identity, death, and birds, for starters, then why not invite others to reflect on such [...]
French Plates
It is the second half of the nineteenth century in France, and you are purchasing plates, dishes, or bowls made by Joseph-Théodore Deck (1823-1891), a renowned ceramist. What might those French wares look like? Well, [...]
And He Also Fed the French
During the Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871), a physician by the name of Christopher James Davis (1842-1870) from Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital in London went to Sedan, France because he wanted to [...]
Château XYZ
Château Tour Saint-Pierre was renamed Château Lapin d’Or. Château Larteau was renamed Château Lapin Impérial. Château Senilhac was renamed Château Antilope Tibétaine. Château Clos Bel-Air was renamed Château Grande Antilope. These wine estates in the [...]
This Thing Called Words
[…] et quant a parler de tout le bien qui ou dit livre puet estre noté, certes trop plus de vertueuses choses, mieulx dictes, plus auttentiques et plus prouffitables — mesmes en politiquement vivre et [...]
Hunger Strikes
For what cause or reason might someone go on a hunger strike? In 1966 Pierre Vallières (1938-1998) and Charles Gagnon (1939-2005) held a hunger strike in front of the United Nations in New York [...]
« Madame, répliqua Florine, je mange des astrologues, des musiciens et des médecins. »
Extrait du conte « L’Oiseau bleu » (1697), Madame d’Aulnoy (1650-1705): [...] « Quoi ! Ce barbare est devenu sourd à ma voix ? disoit-elle. Il n’entend plus sa chère Florine ! Ah ! [...]
American Food in the 1918 Diet of Parisian Schoolchildren
In 1918 the American Red Cross tried to improve the diet of schoolchildren in impoverished parts of Paris. This project began after Dr. John B. Manning, who was working at a Rockefeller Commission dispensary in [...]