A Seasonal Medieval Tajine
10/31/2013
It was also relatively easy to assemble and prepare using ingredients that were local and seasonal in Philadelphia—a wonderful find for a recipe that was invented in another century across the globe!
Category: Food and Drink
This Week’s New Books: Scheherazade’s Feasts, Changing Minds, If Not Hearts, and Ethnography after Antiquity
08/02/2013
Scheherazade's Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World Habeeb Salloum, Muna Salloum, Leila Salloum Elias 256 pages | 8 1/4 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4477-9 | $34.95 |… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books–Beggar Thy Neighbor and As American as Shoofly Pie
05/10/2013
Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst 400 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4462-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 From… READ MORE
Authentic Mock Scrapple
04/10/2013
Blinder Panhaas is a great dish for the frugal cook to have in her repertoire: the recipe is essentially a means to turn leftover cooking stock and some basic kitchen staples into a tasty accompaniment
Pennsylvania Dutch Pies for Pi Day
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
Why Groundhog?
01/25/2013
Weaver says, “properly dressed, groundhog is indeed an underrated American delicacy, and smoked groundhog is an unsung luxury—I do not exaggerate.”
This Week’s New Books: Agriculture, Love, and Archaeology
01/18/2013
Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges Edited by Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 104 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4529-5… READ MORE
Making Seafood Sustainable–Now Available
04/09/2012
Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective Mansel G. Blackford 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4393-2 | $45.00 | £29.50 A… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Three Researchers from the Penn Museum on Sustainable Lifeways
10/01/2010
In the October Penn Press podcast, Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss human strategies for coping… READ MORE
Food Chains–Now in Paperback
08/11/2010
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart Edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4128-0 | $55.00… READ MORE