One day I will write a lengthy essay on the excruciating psychological pain the absurd practice of American leaf-blowing bestows upon me.

A 1605 pliego that imagines the wedding between Guzmán de Alfarache and la Pícara Justina. Their wedding banquet includes grilled cats (☹️) that taste like ducks, and among the guests are Sancho Panza and Celestina. mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...

A historical reconstruction of a 15th century recipe of Menjar blanc de carabasses from Mestre Robert's Libre del Coch. Great stuff from the Esculent Podcast team! esculent.podbean.com/e/libredelco...

Surveiller et punir, a visual description. At @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social

¿A alguien le suena la expresión "quebrar los cuernos" como equivalente de "pintarlos"?

Speaking to the Medieval and Early Modern Studies crowd at UC Davis next week!

No veig el dia ni el mes, l’estació ni el temps, l’hora ni el punt. faberllull.cat/ca/residenci...

Listen to the latest episode of Esculent, where I had such fun talking to the incomparable Paul Freedman. We discuss the history of the celebrity chef and Catalan cuisine while sipping French wine out of mezcal glasses. esculent.podbean.com

Imagine getting a book review like this.

In case you had any doubts, our dean informed us that, in an effort to face budget cuts and find alternative sources of funding, the college has created the “Silicon Valley Advising Group”. 🫠

New hat to celebrate a new season of the Esculent Podcast. Go listen! esculent.podbean.com

Next month at UC Davis!

“The Chicago School doctrine of Corporate Social Responsibility is a rhetorical justification for private corporations to do what they prefer to do anyway: act contrary to the interests of rank-&-file employees, harmed communities, & social activists. This is what the MLA is endorsing…”

Listen to our latest episode, recorded live! We talk with chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval about historically informed food, how to run a justice-based restaurant, and their recent (controversial) Chef's Table feature. This one is particularly good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Come to our MLA panel this Saturday! We reflect on workers' initiatives to create community, strategic efforts to make labor visible or invisible, and the contentious meanings surrounding the nature of work in early modern Iberia. cc @rachelstein.bsky.social @mourelle.bsky.social

Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.

Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.

This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?

Let the fun begin — kicking off today with a conversation with chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval, and Santana Díaz about bringing radical change to the hospitality industry. It will be livestreamed! rmi.ucdavis.edu/events/savor...

Only @danielagtzf.bsky.social can bring scholars, chefs, and food justice activists together to talk about how we talk about food––and how we eat it. I'd say run to get your ticket if you are in California, but there are no more tickets left...

There is only one podcast talking about food justice, conversos hiding their eating habits in pies, and the Black Panthers -- and it is this one

Check out to this episode where we talk about the meaning of esculence and why we want to bring this word back. We discuss why humanists need to intervene in conversations of food justice and all the exciting things to come. Listen and share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

This week is the week! ✨ The colloquium I have curated on historical perspectives on food justice is happening this weekend! Proud to see our project featured in the campus newsletter and so excited for our stellar line-up.🍴 lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/community/re...

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Melons could kill you; so could melancholy. In his new book Eating and Being, the historian of science Steven Shapin analyzes the longest-enduring system of medical and gastronomic thought in European history, dietetics. My review is up at LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-m...

New #food podcast alert 🚨Our very first episode of the Thinking Food show is live! Our amazing postdoc Elizabeth talks to Chef Martin Draluck about the history of slavery, African American cuisine, and speculative cooking. Give it some love! 😍🐔 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Este pasado fin de semana, escribí una nota al pie de página

On presentitis. We need more Marshall Salins among us.

Cumpleañera atrasada.

@isanchezprado.bsky.social at UC Davis on his upcoming book about tacos 🌮!

CFP: “Women and Alcohol: Dangerous Pleasures?” University College Dublin, Ireland - 19-20 June 2025 womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-... Please submit abstracts of 250 words plus a short bio to [email protected] by 13 January 2025

🗃️And another one! “The ERC research project, The Cultural History of the Black Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (BADEMS), is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years on Early Modern Iberian History with an interest in Cultural Minorities.” euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179776