Clod Crushers and Cucumber Straighteners

IMAGE: An English cucumber straightener from the mid-nineteenth century, via the Old Garden Tools museum. This is not what you (probably) think it is. It is, in fact, a glass cucumber straightener from the mid-nineteenth century, invented by George Stephenson, who...

Endangered Cake Museum

I learned of the existence of the world’s first and, to the best of my knowledge, only cake museum in the same moment as I heard the shocking news that its continued survival is under threat due to budget problems in the Los Angeles Unified School District....

Lunch: An Urban Invention

Lunch may be the second meal of the day today, but it was the last of the three daily meals to rise above its snack origins to achieve that status. IMAGE: “Lunch” entry in A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson, London: J. and P. Knapton; J. and T....

Urban Probiotics

IMAGE: Gut flora redesign, using a yogurt vehicle, is already a commonplace activity at breakfast tables around the world. For many, the consumption of probiotic supplements is already a daily routine — a regular, intentional, and frequently yogurt-based effort to...

Travels with Venue

IMAGE: Venue’s identity, designed by Folkert Gorter, spotted in the wild. Site visits and interviews have formed the basis of many of my favourite posts on Edible Geography over the years, whether it be documenting a trip to the mushroom tunnel of Mittagong in...