Cliff Doerksen’s investigation into the decline of mince pie is the most delightful slice of food history you’ll read today.
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Bad News From the Past never gets stale
A historian’s delightful compendium of bizarre news items from days of yore.
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This guy loved Mark E. Smith more than you ever did because he got a Mark E. Smith tattoo
And he lived in Berwyn.
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Reader film criticism, in focus at last
The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog
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Bedbug extermination, historically
Bedbugs in history: electrocution devices, Bed Bug Row, and more
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Key Ingredient Wins a Beard Award
Julia Thiel and Michael Gebert score another Beard award for the Reader with a win for their multimedia feature Key Ingredient.
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Things You Should Read
Why writing about food sometimes seems pointless: it’s all been done so well already.
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One Bite: Mince Pie
What better memorial to the late Cliff Doerksen than an epic bout of mince-pie making?
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From the Archives: Cliff Doerksen’s “Same Old Song and Dance”
The late Cliff Doerksen on payola