At an event sponsored by the South Philly Food Co-Op, I will be talking about the high costs of cheap food and the inflated costs of slow food. For more info, send me an email, bryantsimon46@yahoo.com
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Jan.29.2013 - 8:49 am
Recently, I had the chance to visit a couple of Starbucks stores in Seoul, Korea. There is an interesting coffee scene going on right now in Seoul. Western-ish coffee...
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Oct.31.2012 - 4:19 am
Atlantic City was Disneyland before there even was a Disneyland. It specialized not in the Peter Pan illusion of endless youth, but it the American promise of making it,...
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Oct.22.2012 - 6:40 am
Last weekend, another smart and provocative article from Michael Pollan appeared in the New York Times Magazine. It was about the upcoming...
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Oct.08.2012 - 4:44 am
Inspired by Ted Merwin’s October 10 talk, ”When Harry Met Sally: The Jewish Deli in American Popular Culture,” Professor Bryant Simon took grad students Dylan...
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What Your Coffee Says About You
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10 Places to Relive the 1960s
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Dec.01.2010
Published by Journal of American History
This is a highly readable and deeply engaged examination of the culture of capitalism in the contemporary United States. It is an ethnography, based on countless hours of personal...
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Bryant Simon is Professor of History at Temple University and the author, most recently, of Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks and Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America.
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