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Daniel Karaczun’s Out of This Kitchen: A History of the Ethnic Groups and Their Foods in Steel Valley

Food is part of the daily life of everyone, but the labouring class that worked in particularly dangerous occupations such as mining and steel making came to consider food more than something that you ate to keep going: food was … Continue reading

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Dan Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd

Roughly speaking, books about baseball tend to fall into a few broad categories. The analytics crowd tends to go for titles that are heavy on snark and numbers in equal measures, the clear descendants of their online sources. Other books … Continue reading

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