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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇
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Food Systems Historian, Environmental Humanities. Sensory History of Taste. Trying to understand all things Food & Wine & Sci/Tech, MSCA Alum UStavanger Now at Ruhr U Bochum. New project on wine and climate change. #envhist #foodstudies #foodhistory
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And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get Him to swap our places
Be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
Be runnin' up that building
Say, if I only could, oh
Picture of Pope Leo singing into a microphone with cardinal photographers and other--mostly men in black behind him.
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Mac & Cheese and Chex on massive sale at Harris Teeter and upscale brand of Kroger's collection of grocery stores. These are definitely cheaper than store brand, but they could be on sale as well. Thinking BigFood is feeling the pain of SNAP. Not a holiday sale, that will come next week.
Image of Kraft mac & cheese $0.77 (save $1.22 each) & Chex cereal $1.97 (save $3.02 each) on sale at Harris Teeter an upscale Kroger brand.
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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1877 What a year?
Picture of the Great Railroad Strike in 1877. Burning Pittsburg Union Station, gunshots, women, children, & women running. "Pennsylvania—The Railroad Riot. Pittsburgh—The Philadelphia Militia Firing On The Mob At The Twenty-Eighth Street Crossing Near The Union Depot Of The Pennsylvania Railroad, On Saturday Afternoon July 21st. From a sketch by John Donaghy" "Pennsylvania—The Railroad Riot. Pittsburgh—The Philadelphia Militia Firing On The Mob At The Twenty-Eighth Street Crossing Near The Union Depot Of The Pennsylvania Railroad, On Saturday Afternoon July 21st. From a sketch by John Donaghy," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 4, 1877. Source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 4, 1877—American Social History Project. Noting the illustrated papers’ general “representation . . . of the wild scenes of last week in various American cities,” the Pittsburgh Leader singled out Frank Leslie’s artist John Donaghy, a resident of the city, for accurately portraying “the mob.” The other pictorial publications, the newspaper complained, “represent it as a wild and heterogeneous collection of rough men and virago women, in every variety of costume, some with blouses, some in open shirts and bare arms, some with bandannas around their brows and all with coarse, brutish features, exhibiting every phase of ignorance and malignity.” But, the Leader continued, “American workmen . . . dress in the ordinary male costume of coat, vest and pants, sometimes, however, going in their shirt-sleeves. . . . The South-side delegation, which marched up to the Round-House to help the strikers on that fatal Saturday evening, was led by a man in a good frock-coat, with a white neck-tie, and the men generally were well clad, and many of them had their boots blacked. An American mob,” the Leader concluded, “is a pretty fair representation in appearance of the American people.” International Views of the Strike Pictorial news about the Great Uprising extended beyond America…
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Did Rod Douf*** Ruin the NYT?
Screen shot from NYT Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? by Ross Douf****
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Made pasticio
Piece of pasticio
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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As an American I find it both weird and wonderful to seem my neighborhood decked out for Halloween. Fire pits, bowls of candy & tents to greet the trick or treaters.👻👻🎃🎃🎃🎃
House ready for Halloween. Graveyard, ghosts, and ghouls in the window House ready for halloween. Skeleton, scary pumpkin & lanterns. Skeleton coming out of at pile of leaves
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Confit!!! I wasn't willing to sacrifice my limited duck/goose fat so I used lard and rapeseed oil, which will be repurposed for other uses gradually. Will render the duck fat and add it to my stash for future use.
Cooked duck leg confit in lard and rapeseed oil 1 legs in a white casserole Cooked duck leg confit in lard and rapeseed oil 3 legs in a white casserole
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Feeling very fall so wild mushrooms (cauliflower mushroom & chanterelle) + spinach. Tossed with egg noodles, cream and bacon lardons.
Sautéed chanterelles, cauliflower mushrooms & spinach in a blue sauté pan.
October 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Doing a light confit.
Duck legs wit rosemary, shallot, garlic, differ lime, bay leaf, and spices going into the fridge for a day or two
October 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Duck gravy Everything but the gravy on one plate. Roasted duck breast, celeriac puree, figgy stuffing, roasted potatoes & peas and chanterelles
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Some recent meals. Poêeled chicken with lemon olives and fig and roasted young duckling stuffed with tea scented dried apricots, prunes & fresh figs with celeriac puree, potatoes roasted in duck fat and Sautéed chanterelles & peas. Fig and chanterelle season!!! Yay.
Raw whole chicken glazed with olive oil (poêle) with lemons, green olives and lemon slices. It was roasted and very yummy. Sauce makes itself. Roasted duck with dried apricot, prune & fresh fig stuffing. The fruit were steeped overnight in herb tea with chamomile, fennel and other things I don't know. Bought it at Etaly in Pollens/Bra Italy Floury potatoes roasted in duck fat. Crackling from the neck skin. Green peas & chanterelles sautéed in butter
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Wow such an amazing rainbow in a very distraught & unstable world.
September 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Test for a mushroom & smoked paprika cream crepe gateau. Brown, white & chanterelle duexelle--lemon, white wine, lemon zest, garlic. Will be taller
August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Lunch! Shrimp, avocado, mayo, lemon, cream fraiche
Picture of shrimp and avocado salad with black tomatoes and rye bread. Yumm
August 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This just looks sad. $38!!! I predict is closes in <12 months, but who knows? Good luck opening this in KC, Pittsburgh, Boston or any of the cities you need to make it profitable. Maybe Hollywood, Las Vegas, NYC (doubt) but not scale you need. Clearly Musk/Tesla have no idea what they are doing
Smash burger, tallow fires, chili dog and hashbrown bites. It is a ver sad photo of a soggy burger and over grilled hotdog and pancakes in Tesla boxes
July 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Yumm....dinner last week. A bit less doom
Picture with shrimp, capellini, brown breadcrumbs, basil, and garlic. Lemon sauce & pecorino
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I'm editing the Food (& Drink) Section for Environmental Change and Human Experience for OUP Intersections. Looking for new work on food, drink and the environment. Contact me if you want to learn more. It is peer-reviewed.
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Content, Overview, and Scope of Food Section for Environmental Change and Human Experience. Section name: Food Section Editor(s): Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. Content overview and scope : The Food section of Environmental Change and Human Experience will focus on the tension between the need for humans to sustain themselves while simultaneously exploiting the natural resources and environments surrounding them. Humans and their agricultural practices have long redesigned the environment in both helpful and problematic ways for animals, insects, and societies. Articles in the series will explore the diversity of foods and beverages across space and time and illustrate how food production has reshaped communities, cultures, and the landscape. These essays and topics use new research to build on older literature and will provide new insights on historical themes such as globalization, power, and industrialization. They also highlight new areas of research such as the consequences of technologies on the environment, animal studies and how of more-than-human actors shaped the past, water studies, and indigenous approaches to historical and contemporary foods and food systems. The essays will fall under the topics of “Food Flows: The Circulation of Food across the World”; “Indigenous Knowledge: Sustaining and Exploiting Food Environments”; “Animals: More than Just Meat”; “Quenching a Thirst: Water and Other Drinks”; “Food and Power”; “Building Fields of Dreams: Agriculture and the Reshaping of Landscapes”, and “Industrial Food”.
June 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Experiment! I've eaten farina dumpling since childhood and love them, so decided to make it like polenta or grits. Pork, tomato, mushroom, leek...of course onion and garlic as needed. Very pleased. Think Farina and Shrimp
June 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Very pleased with myself that I was told I made these 2 tables really interesting in a meeting today, on Zoom no less & sitting down. The audience was impressed. Data doesn't need to be dull. Also I really can't lecture sitting down...not in my nature.
Table of US per capita food consumption of major foods between 1909 & 1949. Lot of boring data Fresh Fruit consumption in the US 1909-1948. Another table of boring statistics.
May 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The idea the "American" food is fast food--burgers, hot dogs, Coke, pizza is so 1985. I miss the wonderful variety of restaurants in the US. If you haven't read Smokestack Lightning you should. Brilliant photos and stories of BBQ.
Cover of Smokestack Lightning by Lolis Eric Elie & Frank Stewart. Paper plate on a red & white check napkin.
May 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Rainbow!
Rainbow in Sweden during Great Moose Migration reflected in water
April 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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A bit of lovely nordic nature.
Spring green pine branch from the Great Moose Migration
April 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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wow
Sunset at the great moose migration..Viberent yellow & sweeps of orange
April 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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OMG look at this one!
An awesome bear in the Moose Migration. Not seen this before
April 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Majestic Moose
Majestic Moose from Great Moose Migration
April 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM