Our Daily Bread: A Meditation by Predrag Matvejević
The end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943 saw one of the harshest winters of the century. In norther Germany, near Osnabrück, my father [a Russian speaker from the…
Read moreWhy so many foodie institutions fail: or thoughts on the Oxford Symposium and the Southern Foodways Alliance
Every time I poke about on the shelves and in the file drawers of my study, I run across the remains of failed “foodie” institutions, using the foodie here as…
Read moreThe Food System (Ways of Talking about Food 2)
The term “food system” sounds comfortingly familiar and understandable. System, in the sense of interacting parts, has been used for a long time. Sixteenth-century astronomers talked about systems of the…
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