Not Everything is about Food History

(a place for the other things I write)

I didn’t have a published book until I was 53. Since then, my work’s appeared in over forty books—all non-fiction and mostly about food history. Despite knowing that no one would ever consider me to be a “real writer” until I did something more respectably “literary,” I never wrote fiction.

Then, about five years ago—while recuperating from back surgery—…