Why I Happily ‘Waste’ Food
Food waste is presented in moral terms. It’s bad, even a sin, to waste food. This is a terrible way to frame the issue. Not wasting versus wasting is…
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“You can give an overview of the history of corn,” said John T. Edge in his confident, persuasive voice, ignoring my demurral that in spite of lots of experience with…
Read moreMy 2016 Books on Food History and Politics
Some time ago, I read a blog post, I think by the expert on Vietnamese food Andrea Nguyen, which simply listed the cookbooks her friends had published that year. I…
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