Juneisy Hawkins

open.substack.comReconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous BreadThanks for reading Historical Foodways!

30 July

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

npr.orgThere's nothing scarier than private equity in food : It's Been a MinuteDoes private equity turn restaurants into zombified husks of their former selves?From the Crumbl and Insomnia cookie empires, to some of our country's most enduring chains like Dunkin and Panera, priv...

"You deserve really good food. You deserve to enjoy the experience. You deserve for it to be good quality. And you deserve, like, the comfort of a nice meal, always."

Ravenous@weareravenous.com

Listen to our @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social talking about private equity in food on @npr.org! www.npr.org/2026/10/26/n...

I binge-watched season 4 of The Diplomat yesterday and it's so freaking good.

apnews.comA New York City college student died after being drugged and raped in her dorm, prosecutors sayA newly unsealed indictment says a man raped a student at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology after giving her fentanyl that left her unconscious and ultimately killed her.

Jesus Christ! apnews.com/article/fit-...

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I'm going to sleep-away camp in the Catskills today until Monday and it looks like the fall colors are at peak right now! Last time I went (2019) the trees were already bare. www.iloveny.com/things-to-do...

A coupe of days ago I ordered a copy of Sidney Mintz’s Tasting Food Tasting Freedom, published in 1996. Received it today and this is the last page. Printed yesterday? I guess it’s print on demand now. Weird.

I opened an article on Acrobat and when Acrobat AI assistant prompted to summarize it, I accidentally clicked "view summary" instead of closing the box and it was wild. It kept saying "Colombian Exchange" when the article very clearly said "Columbian Exchange." LOL. So smart.

@benjaminepark.bsky.social

I'm working on my Spring US #FoodHistory syllabus and (re)reading "The Price of Bread: The New York City Flour Riot and the Paradox of Capitalist Food Systems" from 2014. The riot happened in 1837, but the rioters' cries for "bread, meat, rent, fuel! — their prices must come down!" seem evergreen.

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Benjamin Park

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I really wish more people realize the conservative crackdown taking place at public universities affects way, way more people than the overstated and overdramatized issues at the Ivies.

motherjones.comThe loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even startedAccusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as "victim-blaming."

Being raped should not be a price women have to pay for partying. Drinking and doing drugs does not automatically mean you consent to sex of any sort, or anything else, for that matter.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

People outraged by the Cornell rape case should direct some of their energy to reforming the horribly antiquated NY laws that make it especially hard to successfully prosecute the vast majority of rapes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Happy first day of Spooky Lakes Month to all who celebrate! www.instagram.com/p/Dd8AwlGtHw3/

All updated and ready to go. Just in time to start working on the new prep I have for the spring semester.

Juneisy Hawkins@junehawk.bsky.social

I was doing what I thought were the finishing touches on my Fall B classes when I remembered that between the Spring and the Fall I had to switch to the new edition of the textbook for one prep so now I have to change the slides and test banks. Thankfully the book's organization stayed the same.

Four weeks into the academic year and the ID situation remains the same.

Juneisy Hawkins@junehawk.bsky.social

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.

The quilting community is once again in turmoil over lack of diversity. And the president of the company in question claiming that he just didn't know ... in 2026. The MALE president of a company that is in a female-dominated industry in terms of consumers and producers.

thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

22 Sept

If the highest authorities in our universities are using AI to do their work how can we, as faculty, even attempt to get students to grasp that using AI to do their work is not acceptable and is cheating, not to mention it's stopping them from developing many important skills? It's a losing battle.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

aliciakennedy.newsIs Food Flopping?Or has it never really peaked?

21 Sept

"NYC might have Mamdani but the fooderati are being bamboozled." Great piece by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social www.aliciakennedy.news/p/is-food-fl...

I made a couple of small 100% rye sourdough loaves (tourte de seigle) yesterday. They are curing and will slice them tomorrow. Can’t wait to dig in. The rye is NY-grown, and stone ground less than 1 mile from my apartment in Brooklyn.

buff.lyHere’s Just a List of Every Restaurant We Know With Private Equity InvestorsBig money’s tentacles are in your cookies, coffee, and trendy bowl spots

Sad to see Tartine on this list. You know who's not PE backed? Me! Línea Bakery, my microbakery, my passion project, my second job, has been built with my own blood, sweat, and tears. I'm at the Battery Park City farmers market almost every Sunday 9am-2pm. If you're in New York, come buy some bread!

Ravenous@weareravenous.com

Big money’s tentacles are in your cookies, coffee, and trendy bowl spots

lineabakery.netLínea Bakery“All baked items were so delicious […]. This was the second time I ordered items from Linea Bakery and both times the foods were fresh and delicious.”

My bread is great, if I may toot my own horn, and I'm usually sold out by 12:30pm. I use locally grown and milled flour for my specialty flours (rye, spelt, emmer, einkorn, cornmeal, etc), which taste great and helps the money stay in the local economy as much as possible. www.lineabakery.net

This is my first market season (ends on November 22nd), and my goal as I expand is to transition entirely to local flour, not just for the specialty ones. Anyway, just a bit of self-promotion because why the heck not. (I also have a full time job as a college professor, which I'm also good at!)

15 Sept

One moment you're young and carefree, backpacking alone across Egypt, no cell phones, no tech, and the next you're in your kitchen at 10pm measuring the pH of your sourdough starters with lab-grade equipment.

14 Sept

Doing battle with Canvas today, setting up my Fall B classes, which I'm redesigning a bit. Why does it always take ten times as long as you think it will?

14 Sept

One prep down, one to go.

12 Sept

You can buy a $480 box to keep your $60 rye loaf. This whole thing has to be some kind of social experiment or maybe performance art.

Juneisy Hawkins@junehawk.bsky.social

I read about this yesterday as I got home from picking up 25 lbs of freshly milled Hudson Valley rye from NYC's only stone mill, which is a five minute drive from me in Brooklyn. I know how much the very best rye flour you can buy locally costs. I know the labor involved. This loaf is not worth $60.

grubstreet.comA New Bakery Makes One Bread and One Bread OnlyMartin Auer, an acclaimed baker in his native Austria, is opening his first business in New York. It’s called Rye. It makes only one type of bread — an ancient Austrian sourdough — and the price is $60 per loaf.

10 Sept

Grub Street@grubstreet.com

Martin Auer, an acclaimed baker in his native Austria, is opening his first business in New York. It’s called Rye. It makes only one type of bread — an ancient Austrian sourdough — and the price is $60 per loaf.

10 Sept

What I think this is is a marketing ploy. They are getting all this chatter about the ridiculousness of the price for the loaf, which will drum up business and will get people to come in and buy one slice of bread with toppings, their real sellable product.

bostonglobe.comThe rapid rise of Greater Boston’s cottage bakeries - The Boston GlobeFrom rustic sourdough boules and flatbreads to plush cinnamon rolls and pies, local breadsmiths are baking up a whole new industry.

9 Sept

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...

7 Sept

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

I made some very good bagels for my family today. #yeastmasters

7 Sept

I did shape these using a different method (rope).

6 Sept

I made some very good bagels for my family today. #yeastmasters

5 Sept

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.

5 Sept

Is this why people are no longer going to the movies? I've been once in the last 11 years (last year), and it was because I got a free ticket and food because it was a promo for a big movie. The last time before that was Inside Out with my child and I don't remember paying anywhere near this

5 Sept

But I went to the movies pretty much every weekend in the late 90s (LOL). $5 for the ticket, maybe $8 tops for popcorn and a drink, and we'd just show up at the theater just before showtime, no problem. Even in the mid-2000s, movie theaters weren't this much of a racket. Now I sound like a Boomer.

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4 Sept

panthernow.comFIU announces voluntary resignation program ahead of spring 2027 - PantherNOWAs 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.

dlvr.itTrump Cashes In on ‘Lake America’ Renaming With $55 HatsAfter renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Trump quickly turned the new moniker into merchandise, with the Trump Store hawking $55 hats. The post Trump Cashes In on ‘Lake America’ Renaming With $55 Hats first appeared on Mediaite.

4 Sept

I don't want anyone to complain ever again about the price of my baked goods.

Mediaite@mediaite.com

Trump Cashes In on ‘Lake America’ Renaming With $55 Hats

independent.co.ukChatGPT just stopped workingChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.

3 Sept

The Independent@the-independent.com

ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage

2 Sept

"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!

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

31 Aug

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

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

31 Aug

31 Aug

No idea how they would handle things like checking out books from the library and what not. This is so screwed up.

26 Aug

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.

26 Aug

And the lack of jobs is only the tip of the iceberg.

26 Aug

WTF?

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social

AHA hired a lobbying firm with an extensive client list in Israel's occupations. And asked them how to squash advocacy by its own members working in/on the Middle East. It's bad. But It's clockable bc this is also what universities also do to crush dissent, discipline faculty in contested fields.

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Evan Greer

@evangreer.bsky.social

25 Aug

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton