How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates
That’s the subtitle of a new anthology, Food Fights, edited by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker. The food movement, represented in the media by writers such Eric Schlosser,…
Read moreTaste as a Measure of Man.* Please No.
The use of taste to take the measure of others swung completely out of control on Twitter in the last couple of days. For those of you wise enough not…
Read moreThinking about the Land 2: A Perfect Summer Evening
In my earlier post, I said that I wanted to give the farmers’ perspective on the mid-twentieth century British movement now seen as the origin of organic farming. Now I…
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