Historian. Novelist. Greedy Woman. LUSTFUL APPETITES coming out Nov 2024 in UK, Feb 2025 in North America.
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4 Jul 2024
Ten years of work. New book hitting shelves this winter. Available for pre-order now. Ask me to give a talk! #foodhistory #histsex
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17 Jan 2025
"delightful […] To write provocatively takes restraint, and Cleves’s style is crisp and wry.” @IrishTimes review Lustful Appetites by @RachelCleves
irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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16 Sep 2024
Grazie mille John Birdsall @EmilyContois and @DearDara for the amazing blurbs. A thousand sexy, fascinating stories available this November in the UK, February in North America 😍 #histsex #histfood
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6 Sep 2024
More terrible abusive treatment from @WestJet the absolute worst airline I've ever flown. After cancelling my flight and promising me a credit card refund they gave me "travel bank" credit instead. I never want to fly you again @WestJet. You're the worst. I want my money back.
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2 Sep 2024
1869 article attacking the trade in photographs of notorious celebrities. "We have abolished the pillory and set up photography." #photography #celebrity
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25 Aug 2024
Which fall color should I choose? Cheese milk lid, astringent dirty tea or ice impermeable feeling?
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23 Aug 2024
Even I may not be up to the task of recreating this historic recipe. (Calmouk=Kalmyk, a Buddhist Mongolic people from the lower Volga River. This soup encountered on an 1874 trip from Astrakhan to Orenburg.) #foodhistory
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17 Aug 2024
Another testimony to how wide-ranging this book is: there are easter-egg references to all of my previous books/subjects, including anti-Jacobinism, Charity Bryant, Sylvia Drake, Frank Shimer, and Norman Douglas.
17 Aug 2024
Proofing my index and enjoying the range of topics in Lustful Appetites: from Saint Basil, to the Battle Creek Sanitarium, to Honoré de Balzac, to Djuna Barnes, to James Baldwin and James Beard #histsex #foodhistory
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17 Aug 2024
this book is pretty gay--need to check the index and make sure there are an equal number of entries under lesbian. I've got trans history in the book too, but realizing there's no index entry for bi- Better fix that!
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17 Aug 2024
Proofing my index and enjoying the range of topics in Lustful Appetites: from Saint Basil, to the Battle Creek Sanitarium, to Honoré de Balzac, to Djuna Barnes, to James Baldwin and James Beard #histsex #foodhistory
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16 Aug 2024
In new heights of incompetence, I just got an alert from @WestJet to check into my flight. And when I checked my West Jet app it said that my flight had been cancelled a minute ago (it was cancelled at least 16 hours ago). Truly cannot fathom the depths of their failures.
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16 Aug 2024
I think it's hilarious that if you post about how terrible @westjet is spammers immediately respond to you but nary a word from West Jet itself! And by hilarious, I mean, I'm pulling my hair out.
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16 Aug 2024
Nothing like complaining about the abysmal treatment I'm getting from @WestJet and having West Jet bots like my xeets. How about you hire customer service people? You cancelled both legs of my roundtrip ticket to Japan and have cost me thousands of dollars.
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16 Aug 2024
She's unstoppable! Another well-deserved recognition for Jamey's outstanding work 🎉
15 Aug 2024
Many thanks to @oralhistory for recognizing Trans Stó:lō Elder Saylesh Wesley's biography with the 2024 OHA Article Award🏅
It's been my greatest privilege to record Saylesh's life stories, and we're only just getting started!💗 #twospirit #transhistory
tinyurl.com/SayleshWesley
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31 Jul 2024
Paperback release day! Did I mention that I got matching tattoos of the hands on the cover with my brother and co-author Aram Sinnreich?
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26 Jul 2024
only the classiest citations will appear in Lustful Appetites
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24 Jul 2024
Just imagine how upset William Alcott would have been about Alexandre Dumas fils' recipe for potato salad
23 Jul 2024
A stern warning against any of you thinking of making a tasty potato salad to accompany your summer barbeques:
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24 Jul 2024
Not to mention, the recipe calls for mixing in half a glass of Chateau-Yquem, and for cooking the truffles in champagne. I sure hope no one ever tempts me to carnalism by preparing this dish for me.
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