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Dystopian Dining
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A Piece I Wrote for Compact Magazine
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On Snuff Spoons, Oedipal Forks, and My Latest Book
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“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
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Art Could Have Saved Us From Ourselves
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Unusual Tastes: The Restaurants of Weimar Germany
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A “Demitasse” History of Britain’s Temperance Coffee Taverns
I have lived in southern New England for a while now, and it used to be that I could count on winter’s being, well, wintry.
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A Piece I Wrote for Compact Magazine
For Compact Magazine I wrote a piece on a prominent fitness and health influencer thrilling the political far right.
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“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
A man might then behold
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Dystopian Dining
A nut was a nutrition-unit, creation of the Ministry of Synthetic Food.
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Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of Ybor City
We read to know we are not alone.
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Berrying with Thoreau
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor … Let us understand that the…
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Unusual Tastes: The Restaurants of Weimar Germany
Let’s enjoy the carnival of the inflation.
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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