The History of American Cuisine: How It Became What It Is Today

1915 [–> With America’s industrial revolution in the rearview, the government begins promoting homemaking to young women as an exciting new science — “just as useful to maid as to mistress.” Meanwhile, kitchens are adopting technology like mass-produced metal stoves, the early iterations of refrigerators (just iceboxes, at first) and electrification. The electric kitchen leads […]

80 years after bombing Hiroshima, art needs ‘courage to be afraid’

なにもかもなくした手に四まいの爆死証明 なにもかもなくした手に四まいの爆死証明I have lost everything;in my hand,four atomic bomb death certificates — Atsuyuki Matsuo, 1945 HIROSHIMA, Japan — For a few years, now, I’ve been turning over in my head one brief scene in a beautiful movie. It comes two hours into “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning 2021 masterpiece of bereavement and artistic inspiration, when […]