Rachel Laudan

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 [...]

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 also [...]

One of the hardest things to figure out about food, if you live in the US, is how tastes are changing in other parts of the world. Cookbooks and food magazines spend most of their time exploring “authentic” traditional cuisines. So it was great to find Farid Zadi’s summary of how Algerian Cuisine has changed [...]