Hunger by Knut Hamsun | Project Gutenberg

[ad_1] Author Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952 Contributor Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951 Translator Egerton, George, 1859-1945 Title Hunger Original Publication New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Credits Carla Foust, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Language English Category Text EBook-No. 76692 … Read more

Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, from Ancient Rome

[ad_1] West­ern schol­ar­ship has had “a bias against study­ing sen­su­al expe­ri­ence,” writes Reina Gat­tuso at Atlas Obscu­ra, “the rel­ic of an Enlight­en­ment-era hier­ar­chy that con­sid­ered taste, touch, and fla­vor taboo top­ics for sober aca­d­e­m­ic inquiry.” This does not mean, how­ev­er, that cook­ing has been ignored by his­to­ri­ans. Many a schol­ar has tak­en Euro­pean cook­ing seri­ous­ly, … Read more