Okay, people on the writers’ lists I frequent often ask if freebies pay off. Well, they very well might for Joseph Robert Lewis and Tobias Buckell, if I have anything to do with it. The freebies hurt me, and here’s why: Joseph Robert Lewis gave…

I am not obsessed with food. I am not! I am not! Okay, maybe a little. But it serves me well. Many long years ago, while browsing the library shelves (remember libraries? remember bookshelves?), I came across Reay Tannahill’s FOOD IN HISTORY. I checked it…