{"id":1149,"date":"2002-08-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2002-08-22T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T02:00:00","slug":"spaniards-quite-stringy-even-when-boiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/08\/22\/22\/00\/spaniards-quite-stringy-even-when-boiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaniards Quite Stringy, Even When Boiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?critics\/020819crbo_books\">review of a food history book here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0743226445\/meehawl-20\"><b><i>Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food<\/i><\/b><\/a>, with this illuminating excerpt:<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Food\/FOOD%20PROCESSOR.html\">Fern\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdndez-Armesto kicks off his chapter on food and symbolism with an enthusiastic discussion of cannibalism. The tone is set by an epigraph recording what the seventeenth-century Caribbeans thought of their various visitors from Europe. The French were delicious, the islanders said, the English rather less so, and the Spaniards quite stringy, even when boiled.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a review of a food history book here, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, with this illuminating excerpt: Fern\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdndez-Armesto kicks off his chapter on food and symbolism with an enthusiastic discussion&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}