Rachel Laudan

[The British] want their fruit and veg to be the best quality, available year-round, British but in season, cheap but with growers paid fairly, and ideally produced without any use of pesticides or artificial production methods. Hmm.  I’d like that too. This according  to a consumer survey carried out for FPJ by England Marketing.  FBJ [...]

Nice, very nice actually, to be idea of the day in the New York Times blog.  The idea, in a nutshell, is that modern food is great, a huge improvement on the last 10,000 years.  Not perfect.  But reason to go forward, not wallow in nostalgia. Not exactly revolutionary you might think.  Well lots do.  [...]

Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together.  Last week I spent a good bit of time at a seminar on Nutritional Anthropology and more writing about how in nineteenth-century Europe, famines ceased to be a regular part of life, as well as going [...]