Juneisy Hawkins
@junehawk.bsky.social
US History college professor (VAP). Historian of Early America & the Atlantic. Food historian & writer. Cookbook lover. Baker. Travel addict. Always hungry. 📍NYC All opinions are my own. Historical Foodways newsletter: tinyurl.com/4tpxyvn4
Do any of my followers have a subscription to the Boston Globe? I'd love to read this article! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/07/l...
The rapid rise of Greater Boston’s cottage bakeries - The Boston Globe
From rustic sourdough boules and flatbreads to plush cinnamon rolls and pies, local breadsmiths are baking up a whole new industry.
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Today’s round of bagels. Same batch, just longer cold proofing. About 38 hours vs yesterday’s 14 or so.
Juneisy Hawkins@junehawk.bsky.social · 4d agoI made some very good bagels for my family today. #yeastmasters
I was looking to go see Coyote vs. ACME this weekend and I'm horrified at the cost of going to the movies. $70 for three people to just get butts on seats. Nevermind concessions. Plus, everything has to be booked ahead and has assigned seating, all of which really kills any sort of spontaneity.
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FIU announces voluntary resignation program ahead of spring 2027 - PantherNOW
As the Fall 2026 semester gets underway, Florida International University has rolled out a voluntary buyout program that could reshape department rosters ahead of the Spring term.
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I don't want anyone to complain ever again about the price of my baked goods.
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 7d agoTrump Cashes In on ‘Lake America’ Renaming With $55 Hats
"Postpartum" has entered the colloquial lexicon and it drives me crazy because people keep misusing it. "She had postpartum" (often used derogatorily). Yes, everyone who delivers a baby has a postpartum period! It literally means after birth. What you mean is postpartum depression. Just say that!
Power Rangers Dino Fury: It's Rant O'Clock!
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I was on a group Zoom call where one of the participants was sharing his screen. He accidentally shared the one where Gemini is ingesting our call, summarizing it in realtime, and offering reply suggestions. I didn’t even know that was a thing! So even when talking to a human, it might be a bot.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.I'm texting UPS about a lost package, asked for a human agent and not a bot, was assured I'd get an actual person, and then this popped up
So, my kid just started college in a CUNY school today. Last week he went to get the ID card and the ID system was down. Today he was told it would work again some time in September. WTF? The school requires ID to enter the buildings so in the mean every new student needs to sign in instead.
I'm constantly torn between "I should write an article. I should turn my dissertation into a book" and "what's the point? There are no jobs and the end of my VAP appointment will probably be the end of my academic career for good." Felt despair; might delete later.
What Can You Do Shrug
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The 4th installment of Passport to Eat is El Salvador! I made blended black beans and fried ripe plantains. In this project, I’m cooking one dish from every country in the world. #foodculture passporttoeat.substack.com/p/4-el-salva...
#4: El Salvador. Blended Black Beans and Fried Ripe Plantains
With Recipe
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“If you want research led teaching then at a minimum you have to allow teaching staff time to *read* and incorporate new research” I say every year as I object, again, to a workload model that allows 50mins prep per 1 hour teaching.
Marta Zboralska@marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3w agoI remember being asked about “research-led teaching” in an interview for a full-time teaching-only job, and I really had to stop myself from saying “but you won’t be paying me to do any research!”
It's been 5 days since this fiasco started. Marley Spoon has taken thousands and thousands of people's money, not fulfilled their end of the contract, and cut off all customer service. Some people are receiving boxes with nothing but the ice packs. At this point this is willful fraud and theft.
Juneisy Hawkins@junehawk.bsky.social · 4w agoOf course I cancelled (I also had issues last week). The default action of their AI is to give minimal credits for future orders, which is insufficient. I can't make a single meal from the ingredients they sent. What do you mean you're giving me only $36 credit when I paid over $120 for this box?
I can't solve a societal impulse to treat college as a credentialing stamp instead of an education. I can just choose to put my energy into students who want the education instead.
Question for the academic hive mind. As I’ve talked about ad nauseam, I recently earned an Associate in Applied Science in Culinary Arts and a certificate in bread baking. Is that something that I should put in my CV? I’m a food historian, which matters, I suppose. My field is US/Colonial America.
Enjoying my last day of summer before my teaching contract starts again. It's been a long three months and I didn't do most of the things I wanted to do 😂 😭
Marley Spoon, the meal kit company, royally screwed up this week's orders for customers all over the country. It's so bad that some people got only a huge box, cooling packs and all, with only panko in it. Most of the items for my three meals were missing. One meal "kit" had only chicken broth.
Last semester I transitioned all my discussion assignments for the second half of the US survey from Canvas to Kritik and now I'm doing the same with the first half of the survey. I had forgotten how much mental energy that process takes.
Hey, look, I actually made something and posted about it! Reconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous Bread open.substack.com/pub/historic... #histfood #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #foodculture
Reconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous Bread
Thanks for reading Historical Foodways!
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I never again want to hear that I should turn my AC to 80F in a heat wave.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last mo."By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.
I’m feeling quite smug about this lunch I just made, if I’m being honest 😂 My own bread, and with the exception of the salt and olive oil, it’s all local ingredients from farms I can name, thanks to the farmers market and the CSA. Nice little peach caprese.
Not me googling the professor who will be teaching my child US Since 1865 at CUNY in the Fall...
Betty Briggs on Laptop in Twin Peaks
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I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"
One more Trump supporter — Lindsay Graham — lost in the Senate. In their obituary for him @theguardian.com quotes Graham’s famous quote (on Twitter from 2016): “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.”
Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, has died after sudden illness, his office says
Republican senator had served in the Senate since 2003 and was a sharp critic of Trump before becoming one of his most loyal backers
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Today I mixed, fermented, and shaped 35kg/77lbs of sourdough, which is 36 loaves of bread, plus some brioche dough, by myself in my NYC apartment kitchen, using my own two hands and a small spiral mixer that can only do 5kg at a time. Things were learned.
It turns out it would probably be better to confide in the bear too.
