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POPSHistory of Coffee Austin's clipping brought to you by: COFFEE! It is my firm belief that coffee is at the root of all modern western scholarship.
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POPSThe Silk Road Dining Exchange I'm begining to research for a project that will culminate with a series of 9 dinners around Beijing, at different restaurants from different cultures, spanning the length of the silk road. I'm going to track various foods and cuisines around the world, as the influence others and pick up foreign flavors. To organize this research, I'm going to use a special clipcast called Silk Road Cuisine. As the project develops, information will be posted on my various www.austinatlarge.org blogs.
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POPSThe History of the Potato There apparently is a school of historians who ascribe all turning points of any historical significance to the potato. I am most amused by the section headings such as "Potatoes in Wartime" and "Fear of Potatoes" and "Potato Diaspora." Is it just me or are we starting to anthropomorphize our food?
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POPSNotes on Pita Also suggests pita is the origin of pizza. Interesting. Next I've got to track down the connection between Pita and Naan.
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POPSThe History of Cabbage This is interesting, but it doesn't talk about how it got to China. Mustard plants grow wild in China, so perhaps the Chinese cabbage was independently derived through a selective process similar to the one that produced the European cabbage. Otherwise, there is a big gap between East Asian Cabbage communities and the European Cabbage communities. (Since the cabbage doesn't seem to have any historical presence in the Middle East or Central Asia - I could be wrong...)
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POPSThe History of Rice Spready through wet monsoon asia through the "technology" of the rice paddy. Spread to Europe by the Moorish conquest of Spain. When did it reach Italy? How did it spread in Central Asia?
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