Rachel Laudan

Delia Smith, that is. If you don’t live in Great Britain, you’ve probably never heard of her. So you don’t know that when she did a television cooking show on how to boil an egg, 54 million more eggs than normal were sold in the next few days. Since the population of [...]

So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM crops; the economics of biofuel; and how American corn politics affects other parts of the world.
And of these other parts of the world, few are [...]

Thanks, Adam, for your comment that the foodie establishment in the UK is down on cheap chicken. It neatly brings together a couple of other stories I wanted to mention. Here’s an editorial from Spiked on Line, an interesting UK-based contrarian site, called Cheaper Chickens: A Slap in the Face for Food Snobs which [...]