Bøger af Tom Hughes

California's Central Coast is one of the most food historic places in America especially the peninsular cities of Monterey and San Francisco rich with food historic sites that are explored here for the first time.One of the most productive food producing regions of the world is the California Delta, an eleven hundred square mile multi-channeled mouth of the southwest flowing Sacramento and the northwest flowing San Joaquin Rivers.Monterey County's Salinas Valley and the counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda to the north beside and between Monterey and San Francisco Bays were and still are in some cases the source of a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, seafood, livestock and dairy products that nourished not only America but the world. Urbanization and overfishing have taken their toll on the cornucopia that once was the Central Coast and Delta of California. This book explores the food historic sites of the region and how people and organizations there are planning for a more sustainable food system in the future.

When Victoria took the throne in 1837, there were about 14,000 clergymen employed in the Church of England. By her death, that number more than doubled. From the grandest episcopal palace to the remotest rectory, almost without exception, these men lived and died in service to their Church and congregation. Temporally, they avoided notoriety. They broke no laws. They married happily and raised their young. Misconducting clerics were few. Still, for those who delight in a good vicarage scandal, the Victorian church offered an "unpleasantly abundant crop." The anti-clerical Reynolds' Newspaper declared in 1870, "Clerical scandals have of late grown as rife as those peculiar scandals which pre-eminently affect high society." But profligacy amongst the peerage was almost to be expected. "Sinners that we are, we instinctively expect something better from the gentlemen who undertake to teach us the way." The five anecdotal accounts herein were selected from the author's unique database, numbering hundreds of Victorian clergymen. For more details, see the acknowledgements. Parson Young's Night Out - a boisterous Yorkshireman finds himself rector of a posh parish in a quiet Surrey village. The Rev. Charles Gordon Young was initially popular in the pulpit and on the cricket ground. His critics, however, suspected the rector drank too much. What were the local "swells" of Chipstead to think when their clergyman was found in a notorious London club with a lady of the evening upon his knee? A Case of Heartless Villainy - His prospects blighted, his health ruined, the Rev. Richard Marsh Watson made a living in a clerical agency and selling sermons. And a bit of blackmail. Having seduced his wife's sister, Watson required her to purchase his silence. When she, at last, refused to pay, the ensuing trial shocked all Britain. Still, as one newspaper wondered, "What are we to think of the young women who yielded to the advances of a scrofulous parson with one leg?" A Clerical Lothario - The Rev. Turberville Cory- Thomas, complimented frequently on his "dagger moustache," was quite popular with the church ladies in the rapidly growing parish of Acton Green in West London. His vicar praised him regularly. Until, that is, Mr. Cory-Thomas was accused of attempting to seduce two sisters - one over lunch at Gatti's, the other in a grim bedsit near Euston Station. The ensuing slander trial shared the front pages with news of Queen Victoria's death. I'll Do for Dicky Rodgers - A summer outing on the Broads was under the charge of the Rev. Edward Rodgers, curate of Lowestoft. Too much sun, too much smoke and drink at the "after-party" in the pub, and Rodgers was poorly. A local youth offered to help him home. What happened in the darkened lane between the hedgerows? George Rix began telling everyone, "He must have thought I was his wife." The Irreproachable Mr. Karr - Handsome, sporting and the darling of the raffish set at Berkeley Castle was the Rev. John Seton Karr. In the town, however, the vicar's suavity may have gone too far. Was Mr. Karr's gift of satin dancing shoes to a local solicitor's wife in any way appropriate? But when Mrs. Gaisford, known for her extraordinary teeth, called upon Mr. Karr at his London hotel, sensational rumours were aroused leading to a series of legal battles that, literally, worried a Bishop to death. These vignettes will surely delight all Anglophiles (worldwide), Victorianists, church-crawlers, fans of true-crime & courtroom tales, local historians and more.

Ask yourself or anyone: What's the first food memory that pops into your mind? It could be from your childhood, a positive or negative memory and involve a person or place. In this book, you'll find a va- riety of responses to the same question along with an exploration, with examples from all over, of why our food memories, our food histories, and our food heritage sites matter.This book also offers tips on how to investigate personal, family and community food heritage and what are the benefits. It includes sug- gestions on how readers can delve further into a variety of food history projects including writing or filming a memoir, starting food- themed collections, blogs, podcasts, exhibits and joining with others to preserve a food heritage site or prepare for more sustainable com- munities. Lastly, there's a brief introduction to the mission and programs of The Food Heritage Center.

Why does food heritage matter? What is being done to help the public know about the history and social influence of the foods they eat? This groundbreaking book identifies and promotes the preservation of food historic places, and it advocates for more food-themed museums and exhibits. Part memoir, part action plan, Food Heritage Matters also explores how individuals can investigate and preserve their personal, family and community food histories and heritage sites.

"Eats History: Cooking with Fire to Printing Up Pizza" showcases places where the public can find out about the history and social influence of the foods they eat. A long over-looked subject presented for the first time here. Every food plant and animal, beverage, farm, ranch, fishery, grove, packer, processor, market, kitchen and recipe has a history. This book promotes the identification and preservation of food historic sites, and advocates for more food-related museums. "Eats History" and its companion volume, "Food Heritage Matters," will help readers, especially Americans, think about their food, and strive for a more sustainable food system. For the author it all started in 1975 when he created with his students The Potato Museum, which caught the attention of two thoughtful people. "The Potato Museum is of the new modern type, which cuts across academic frontiers; it's an enthusiast's museum and our hard, cold, cynical world desperately needs enthusiasm."--Kenneth Hudson, author of "Museums of Influence""The most important issue confronting the human race is how we are going to preserve the quality of the environment and still feed the rapidly growing population into the next millennium. The Potato Museum provides a vehicle to get the message across."--Dr. John Niederhauser, 1990 World Food Prize LaureateThe author has used the collections and concept of The Potato Museum and later The Food Museum project to tell important stories about our world, first to his students, and later, to groups around the world.The koshary vendor, on the cover, well represents important themes of "Eats History." Koshary's ingredients (all cooked separately) represent the inter-continental exchange of foods. Lentils from India, rice from east Asia, chickpeas, one of the oldest cultivated legumes, and wheat, an ancient grain, both originated in southwest Asia. The tomatoes and chile peppers that make up the sauce called 'shatta' are from the Americas. Although piri-piri sauce from peppers grown in southern Africa for centuries is sometimes used. And those caramelized onions on top? Probably native to central Asia and revered by the ancient Egyptians who viewed the onion's spherical shape and concentric rings as symbols of eternal life. The fact that Koshary was originally a recipe from India that was first introduced to Egypt by the British is an example of the spread of cuisines around the world through trade and empire. Not withstanding Koshary's origins, it is most importantly a unifying dish for all Egyptians. The ubiquitous Koshary vendors provide an affordable, hearty, tasty, meal for customers of all ages including, as depicted in the model, Cairo's kids.

My wife and I visited five nations in five weeks spanning five seasons. It was summer in Fiji, fall into winter in New Zealand's North Island, spring in Queensland, Australia and summer again in Bali, Indonesia and Hong Kong, China. The trip's mission was to discover what food heritage sites and stories are being preserved and to what extent they are available to the public. The purpose in writing this book was to demonstrate how others might do the same: discover and record the food historic sites and memories associated with places both near and faraway, familiar and unknown. We did the same sort of research around France in about the same amount of time for a book we wrote "Gastronomie! Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France." The Fiji equivalent to the French "Bon appetit" is "Bula" but also means so much more including "welcome," "good health," and "life is great!" In Fiji the toast is "Kia Ora." Australians, of course, say "Cheers Mate!" Indonesians proclaim "Santi" and in China it's "Ganbei."What do Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and China have in common? We weren't seeking commonality in planning our itinerary, but once we completed the trip we realized that all these places have a special or national drink, grow sugar and sweet potatoes and have specialized cooking styles all of which you'll find described in this book. Sweet potatoes, for example, are a heritage crop for Pacific Islanders. Queensland grows 80 percent of Australia's crop. Mareeba, where we visited in the Atherton Tableland, is one of the nation's major production centers. In Bali local varieties of sweet potatoes are still grown using traditional methods where they are an important part of everyone's diet. Either eaten fresh or processed into flour they are an important part of everyone's diet. The sweet potato flour winds up in a variety of foods and beverages including sweet potato juice, sweet potato rice and even sweet potato ice cream. China is the world's leading producer of sweet potatoes. On Hong Kong's Lantau Island, for instance, we encountered Mok Kau-moon, a sweet potato and soybean farmer, who is best known for his freshly made daily "tofu fa." This soybean curd coated with syrup is a Chinese favorite dating back many centuries. Mok Kau-moon makes his sweet tofu snack food using mountain stream water that flows through his sweet potato fields on the hillside above the beach community of Mui Wo.

Food Museums matter because they: ---explore how our species has sustained itself, ---examine artifacts as diverse as spearheads and petrified remains of meals, to the foods designed for space, ---teach about the world's food resources (animal, vegetable and mineral), their identities, origins and travels around the globe, ---display innovative exhibits that depict hunting, gathering, fishing, herding, growing, marketing, cooking, processing and eating, ---invite us to learn about the planet's diversity of diets, agriculture and culinary techniques, ---celebrate food through art, music and literature, ---entertain us with food-related art, film, musical programs.In museums the past and future meet like few other places. Objects and explanations of the past are preserved to be observed by us all, but especially our youth who will exist in a future the adults among them won't experience. Some of these now young people will collect, preserve and display artifacts in the museum displays of the future.Some of these future exhibits will relate the history of our late 20th and early 21st-centuries' industrialized food system which fed so many while at the same time contributed, more than any other factor, to the compromised health of our planet and its people

Like many people who visit or live in Pinellas County, I love the Gulf Beaches, Tampa Bay side parks, and wide range of places to eat and enjoy life. Florida's densest, smallest and only peninsular county is also one of its most historic. People have been hunting, gathering, transporting, processing, preparing and eating a wide range of foods, native and imported, for thousands of years. Pinellas was Florida's most agriculturally productive area for decades. Follow my trail from Pinellas Point to Pass-A-Grille north to Tarpon Springs and back south to St. Petersburg. In a 1885 speech before the American Medical Association, Baltimore physician "W. Chew Van Bibber, praised Pinellas Peninsula as "the healthiest spot on earth." This helped spur the phenomenal growth that continues well into the 21st century. Curiously of the many generations of residents and visitors who have been drawn to this healthy spot and well nourished in Pinellas include several men who made their fortunes in sweets elsewhere before moving to St. Petersburg. They include a salt water taffy king, a chewing gum millionaire, the inventor of the Clark Bar and the creator of the Fig Newton. Pinellas has also been home to two women associated with the important issues of over eating. Terri Schivo put the spotlight on living wills as a result of falling into a coma after taking severe measures to lose weight. Sara Blakey, founder of the Spanx foundation garment business, is the first self-made female billionaire.Others encountered on this Pinellas County food heritage trail are: a Spaniard who may have inspired the Pocohontas legend; the "last of the pirates;" notorious explorers Panfilo de Narvaez and De Soto; a man famous for his smoked fish; a band of brothers who rode with the Confederate "cow cavalry;" citrus industry innovators who created the first orange crate, packing assembly lines, tangerine and grapefruit varieties and frozen concentrates. Alan Lomax, who selected Earth's music that was sent out into the Universe, lived his later years in Pinellas. So did Milan Hodza, the agrarian reformer and former prime minister of Czechoslovakia. Automotive pioneer Ransome Olds spent much of his Oldsmobile fortune creating a model farming community. Greek immigrant and former cook in General Pershing's army, Louis Pappas made it big in the restaurant business. Cereal King W.K. Kellogg wintered here. So did other millionaires, William Webster (industrial heating systems), John Wanamaker (department stores), medical textbook publisher F. A. Davis to name just a few. Others include Scientologists (Clearwater is their spiritual headquarters), the Doors' Jim Morrison, stuntman Evel Knievel and pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. The Rolling Stones in 1965, composed their hit song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" while staying at Clearwater's Fort Harrison Hotel.Many of the nearly 100 places mentioned in this tour are long gone. A few have been saved and moved to several heritage parks. The tour is a journey through time that chronicles the development of the county.Join me in exploring the history and food heritage sites of Pinellas County, Florida.

Every city has a moniker, a nickname to call its own, but there is none for our nation's capital. DC Nickname Campaign nominates: "Washington DC: The Hot Potato!"Perfect, right?No city on earth has juggled (tossed, dropped or passed) as many hot potato issues as good old "no taxation without representation" District of Columbia.Hot Potato: n. inf. A controversial issue or situation that is awkward or unpleasant to deal with. ---Oxford Current English Dictionary, 2009WDC: where devilishly difficult to resolve issues are tackled or not every day by all branches of government, executive, judicial and congressional. This book is about my long-standing belief that Washington, DC is indeed "The Hot Potato." A nickname it has earned. An association with the noble tuber that is fitting and complimentary. After all, potatoes are significantly more valuable and versatile a commodity than apples any day. And potatoes are all American in origin. Apples come from Kazakhstan. Apple pie is not really American, but any way you prepare them, potatoes are. Better to be identified with the world's number one vegetable than a fruit that as the saying goes: "it takes only one to spoil the barrel. Thirty years ago, my wife and I opened the world's first museum dedicated to potatoes in a gallery space of our Capitol Hill townhouse. Here's part of a New York Times article from that time. "Mr. Hughes, who says the potato provides more food value per acre than rice or wheat, quotes approvingly from Hymn to the Potato, by the Brooklyn poet Menke Katz: "On the hungry alleys of my childhood, the milky way was a potato land.""Asked why the potato museum is in Washington, Mr. Hughes explained that ''it should be in the city where every day people are handling hot potatoes. Can you think of a city that handles more hot potatoes?''He said he had urged Mayor Marion S. Barry to get Washington formally called the Hot Potato, as New York is called the Big Apple. 'I'm getting a little tired hearing all that Big Apple bit, ' he said. 'The potato is a hell of a lot more nutritious and more versatile and economically more important than apples ever will be.''' But in DC, especially on the president's desk, in the halls of Congress and at the Supreme Court's bench, is where the hottest potatoes of all land. If they could be handled by others they would. Over the years, hot potatoes pertaining to wars, rights and financial affairs have been ever present issues making headlines in Washington. Others such as civil service reform and tariffs (high, low or abolished) have been potatoes so fiery to handle that they were passed on through a series of administrations during the nation's "gilded age." Some were one time affairs. WDC may qualify as the one place beyond needing a moniker or motto, but that doesn't prevent a legion of PR types, tourism touts, promoters, image builders, editors, journalists, headline composers, song writers, novelists and me from thinking it needs one. We've got a point. Who wants to keep writing, reading or hearing "Washington-this and Washington-that" endlessly? The time for a catchy nickname is long past due. The book includes lists of "hot potatoes" handled over the nation's long history. It also is full of fun and games that make learning about American political history enjoyable for a wide range of audiences.

There's hardly anyone in the world more down-to-earth than Jesus. That sounds far-fetched because, well, Jesus is God. But read the Gospels and you find Jesus telling stories that ring true from beginning to end, stories you can immediately identify with, stories that make you go "hmmm."In Down to Earth we learn that these stories are different from the stories we tell each other-these are stories intended to change your life. They're soul stories-stories that get inside you and linger there, stories you start to find yourself living into. And when you do, you and the world around you are transformed for good.

In March 1912, Gene Grace, a young Atlanta businessman, was found shot in the locked bedroom of his fashionable home "between the Peachtrees." Daisy Grace, his flashily dressed Yankee wife from Philadelphia, was soon arrested on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Gene Grace was left paralyzed but, more importantly, he was powerless legally. Under Georgia law, he could not testify against his wife. Prosecutors were forced to rely instead upon the circumstantial evidence of an alleged "diabolical plot." The Atlanta newspapers--led by the Georgian, under the very new control of Mr. Hearst, that giant of "yellow journalism"--covered the case relentlessly. Papers across the country followed the drama for months, which concluded with a five-day trial held in the searing heat of a Georgia summer. This is the never-before-told story of the tragic romance between "the Adonis of a country town" and the woman known to all as "Daisy of the Leopard Spots."