Bones and Bagel Water

Three short stories of food and the city: 1. An analysis of food remains at three sites in Lower Manhattan showed that the kinds of fish eighteenth-century New Yorkers ate changed significantly over time: social archaeologist Nan Rothschild found that “early New...

The Farm City of Tomorrow: Apply Today!

VIDEO: Made for the New York Public Library’s Mapping New York’s Shorelines exhibition, this video combines historic maps with a Google Earth flyover to reveal the outline of the eighteenth-century Rutgers Farm beneath today’s East Village....

Save the Date! Foodprint NYC

I am incredibly pleased to announce that Edible Geography is poised to make its first foray into the physical world, by co-organising Foodprint NYC, which is itself the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. The event will take place...

Publishing Food #2

IMAGE: The Little Cookie Book, Ruth Adomeit (Woodstock, Vermont: The Lilliputter Press, 1960). 2 3/8 x 1 5/8″ On a recent excursion to The Morgan Library & Museum (to see their gorgeous William Blake exhibition), I spent some time in the gift shop leafing...

The Self-Consuming Barbecue Pavilion

In a fantastic hybrid of edible architecture and temporary summer pavilion, architect Caroline O’Donnell has proposed Bloodline, a free-standing, self-consuming grilling shelter. IMAGE: Sectional model through the preparation bench, Bloodline pavilion. All...