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Juneisy Hawkins

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US History college professor (VAP). Historian of Early America & the Atlantic. Food historian & writer. Cookbook lover. Pastry student. Travel addict. Always hungry. 📍NYC All opinions are my own. Historical Foodways newsletter: tinyurl.com/4tpxyvn4

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 3h

I have to write a paper for culinary school and the instructor wants APA format. I have literally never used APA 🫠

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 4h

It doesn't matter how much I think I'm done with setting up my courses on Canvas I always find something that needs to be fixed/changed.

a stuffed animal is sitting at a table with a plate of donuts .

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Yasmin Tayag @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social · 7d

This year's Halloween chocolate is.... awfully light on the chocolate!!! An investigation:

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Something Weird Is Happening With Halloween Chocolate

Where did it all go?

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 7d

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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SAVEUR @saveur.com · 1d

From hand-rolled tea to dried persimmons, artisans in Nara, Japan are bringing their generations-old crafts into the future.

Meet the Makers Preserving the Past in Nara

From hand-rolled tea to dried persimmons, artisans in Nara, Japan are bringing their generations-old crafts into the future.

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Diana Hubbell @dianahubbell.bsky.social · 13d

I'm constantly amazed how deeply entwined the US food system is with the military industrial complex. Here's why Hershey's became "The Great American Chocolate Bar," featuring a rogue pilot who became known as "The Berlin Candy Bomber" www.popsci.com/health/hersh...

How WWII made Hershey and Mars Halloween candy kings

From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey’s bars into symbols of American abundance.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 22h

I was today years old when I learned that in Spanish "baking powder" is impulsador. Cubans call it "polvos Royal" (Royal powder) because that was the brand name sold in Cuba before the revolution.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 1d

I should add that I mean the ones you can buy. I don't know anyone who makes it at home.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 1d

The quality has definitely gone down. It was so amazing in the 90s and early 2000s.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe it's been that long. I remember it like was yesterday.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 3d

I have lived this horror in person at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. Spooky indeed.

(Thankfully they have since started letting people take photos, or so I hear.)

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 3d

a woman wearing headphones is sitting in front of a microphone ..

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 3d

Documents sank in shipwreck.

Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 3d

The records burned down.

Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 4d

I adore British flapjacks! They are made with oat and golden syrup. Marks & Spencer sells them in tubs and they are the best I’ve tried over the last 20 years. And I’ve tried a lot!

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 6d

This is bonkers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 6d

And since the pandemic at least, I have been more and more disappointed with eating out. It's usually mediocre at best.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 6d

Creme brulee, cheesecake, molten chocolate cake. Maybe a slice of cake.
I am consistently disappointed by dessert in restaurants. So much so that I no longer get dessert unless it's a place with a pastry chef (most restaurants don't have one). Life is too short to eat calories that taste like shit.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent video and reporting on why so much of restaurant food tastes the same.
Being in pastry, my pet peeve is that the majority of restaurants, even nice ones, do not make their own dessert and buy them already made from places like Sysco. So all desserts are the same.
youtu.be/rXXQTzQXRFc?...

I Tracked Down The Company Ruining Restaurants

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 8d

I just watched this video and now I want to move to the country and bake bread in a clay oven.

youtu.be/TAy9ioMd8cs?...

70-Year-Old Homesteader Bakes French Bread Like It's 1850

YouTube video by Cottage and Company

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 8d

It has taken Bluesky no time at all to shit the bed, it seems.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 9d

Just registered!

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 9d

I worked briefly at the A&E in a Whitechapel (London) hospital after being a Hospital Corpsman in the US Navy for five years, including in the emergency room AND literally being in the Persian Gulf treating war casualties on USNS Comfort during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The A&E stint was no joke!

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed they do. Hard for us city folk to believe, I know.

Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 9d

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