Thinking about the Land 2: A Perfect Summer Evening

In my earlier post, I said that I wanted to give the farmers’ perspective on the mid-twentieth century British movement now seen as the origin of organic farming. Now I…

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Thinking about the Land: A Personal Perspective on the Origin of Organic Farming

Almost a hundred years ago “on a misty Boxing Day [26th December] in 1926, a dozen young men assembled at a hamlet in Wiltshire [in southwest England] for their annual…

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Maida Heatter and Molly O’Neill, RIP.

Two fine food writers, each of them important to me in very different ways, have died in the past few months.  What better way to remember them than by turning…

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