Archive - The Austerity Kitchen

Preview of My New Book

Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating comes out soon

Jun 27, 2023 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

April 2023

Art Could Have Saved Us From Ourselves

The Federal Art Project set out to create a more democratic and enlightened America

Apr 28, 2023 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

March 2023

On Snuff Spoons, Oedipal Forks, and My Latest Book

The history of cutlery is not as boring as you might think

Mar 16, 2023 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

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.

Mar 9, 2023 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

February 2023

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.

Feb 23, 2023 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

December 2022

“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”

A man might then behold

Dec 23, 2022 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

November 2022

Dystopian Dining

A nut was a nutrition-unit, creation of the Ministry of Synthetic Food.

Nov 29, 2022 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

September 2022

Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of Ybor City

We read to know we are not alone.

Sep 8, 2022 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

June 2022

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…

Jun 30, 2022 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

April 2022

Unusual Tastes: The Restaurants of Weimar Germany

Let’s enjoy the carnival of the inflation.

Apr 18, 2022 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

December 2021

Observing Christmas with a Mass Observer

A sprig of mistletoe was all Pam Ashford wanted for Christmas, 1941.

Dec 30, 2021 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

March 2021

"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens

To the distinction between dining and merely feeding no one was more alive than Charles Dickens.

Mar 7, 2021 •

Christine Baumgarthuber

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