Love this. Kate and I both have taken to cooking more than our siblings so we’ve amassed family cookbooks, and boxes of index card recipes. It’s a nice connection, and nice to add recipes that the girls end up loving and we turn into regulars.
Current Readings: "The lesson…is not that the Revolution was a finished achievement to be commemorated, but that it was never finished at all. The ideas it released kept working long after the men who spoke them were gone." Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social), on Gordon Wood, in the UnPopulist:
Moving my Du Bois work from the 1890s to the 1920s means I get to buy more books. Them’s the rules.
The drama around Quinn Slobodian recently has gotten really insane. Grow up and stop getting hysterical every time you come across a challenging or alternative analysis.
Melinda Cooper is valuable because she shows us how economists not directly studying the family interact with the family and gender. In the past “outsiders” have contextualized economists and their role in the Cold War.
Hutt was a committed opponent of apartheid, a creative and original economist, and a bit grumpy sometimes, which makes him colorful to read! He was many things.
But over several decades he absolutely and unequivocally advocated rules to guarantee that white minorities were political majorities!
Outsiders have different frameworks and goals so you’re always going to find some points of difference with them, but it would be a huge mistake not to embrace them and learn from them as they come.
My home office walls are lined with bookshelves, mostly economics and history of course. But one of my favorite books in the house is the copy of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking that my great grandma gave my grandma.
I think seeing things from different angles is really valuable. MacLean was valuable because she integrated the history of public choice into Southern history. Slobodian was valuable because he took us out of socialist calculation debate on repeat to talk about the international economic system.
Gordon Wood understood the genius of our founding better than the Founders themselves. Rest in Peace, sir.
🧵What do we lose when family & community cookbooks disappear? 🍲📚
Katie Livingston explores how cookbooks preserve family histories, community traditions, and everyday life.
Read her essay "Preserving Cookbooks," part of VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
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