Poi and the Vegefication of the United States

Poi, as anyone who has been to Hawaii knows, was the staple food of the Hawaiians pre-Contact.  Now it’s often the butt of jokes.  Who would want to eat purple…

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Here we go again

Pollan on how we should eat. Warren Belasco, author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry.  “Very sad to see how low Pollan has fallen.…

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The house of six granaries

Here’s what for me is another mind-stretching house, so far as food is concerned.  It’s far away from Mexico and just as far away from the room for storing food…

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