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Savor TOM NEALON’s History of Food Fights and Culture Wars

March 17, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States

Porter Square Books welcomes TOM NEALON for a discussion of Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste. In this eclectic book of food history, NEALON takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin […]

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