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Dystopian Dining
A nut was a nutrition-unit, creation of the Ministry of Synthetic Food.
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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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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Christine Baumgarthuber
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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
“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
A man might then behold
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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
Unusual Tastes: The Restaurants of Weimar Germany
Let’s enjoy the carnival of the inflation.
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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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Christine Baumgarthuber
Observing Christmas with a Mass Observer
A sprig of mistletoe was all Pam Ashford wanted for Christmas, 1941.
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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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Christine Baumgarthuber
Of Anarchists, Empresses, and Diets
Only those who work are entitled to eat!
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"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.
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Preview of My New Book
Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating comes out soon
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