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Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating comes out soon
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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
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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
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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. Snow fell and it stuck…
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Christine Baumgarthuber

February 2023

December 2022

“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
A man might then behold At Christmas, in each hall Good fires to curb the cold, And meat for great and small. The neighbors were friendly bidden, And…
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Christine Baumgarthuber

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December 2021

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. For him, any refreshment to be gotten from a meal was…
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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