Where food history misbehaves.
Where food history misbehaves.
My dearest readers, If you believed the humble banana to be an innocent fruit, as harmless as a sun-kissed morning in the tropics, allow me to shatter that illusion. Behind its jaunty yellow peel lurks a saga of empire, blood,…
A True Food Crime from the Desk of Lady Simmertown Dear Readers, Let us cast our eyes not upon the rolling hills of Tuscany nor the lavender fields of Provence today, but toward the pungent, perilous heart of Italy’s dairy…
A genetically engineered scandal, twenty years in the making, and far more sinister than your local fishmonger dares to admit. As Recounted By Lady Simmertown Dearest Gentle Reader, Permit me a moment of candor, for what I am about to…