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Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

“Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook.”

By Anthony Bourdain | October 15, 2024

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Animal Rights Are Women’s Rights: Why British Suffragettes Went Vegetarian

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Pilsner Goes to America: How Beer Got Big in the 19th Century

Pilsner Goes to America: How Beer Got Big in the 19th Century

Jeffrey M. Pilcher Tracks the Transatlantic Development of Pilsners and Lagers from Central Europe to the Americas

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American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

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