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 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century
Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…
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