The year of reckoning with the twin pandemics of racism and COVID-19 increasingly reminds us to attend to the relationships […]
Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire
Had a Bloody Mary to drink at brunch? Ate a Caesar salad last week? Munched on deviled eggs at that […]
“What Must That Sound Like?”: The Trauma of Family Separation
On June 22, 2018, US Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California’s 33rd District, stood on the floor of the […]
Sex, Death, and Atole at the Royal Indian Hospital
Mexico City, 18th Century For the wounded, diseased, and ailing of Mexico City, just about anything was better than the […]
“Just Close Your Eyes and Chew!”: Spirulina, Modernization, and the “Lost” Crops of the Past
On February 20, 2017, the young nation of South Sudan declared that it was suffering famine in several regions of […]
