Rachel Laudan

I always find lists from the non-food obsessed more interesting.  Here’s one of special interest to those in the Washington area from Mike Licht of Notions Capital that includes one of my favorites, Gherkins and Tomatoes.

It had to happen. Today the NY Time’s Jennifer Steinhauer wrote a good article on the plate lunch in Hawaii. Of course it frets about grease and underplays the sheer wonder of the cultures that have produced this food. But this is not the time to defend the plate lunch.
It’s there [...]

Given the rest of his article, I assume that Pollan intends his presumptive title for the President of the United States–farmer in chief–to contrast with the traditional role of Commander in Chief. And in offering the alternative, I assume he intends to set the productive, peaceful, domestic world of farming and food against the [...]