Diplomats and the Rise of “Foodism” in the 1960s and 1970s

For some years, I’ve thought about posting an intermittent series of blog posts under the heading “questions and wild speculations.”  As long as wild speculation is acknowledged for what it…

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The State of American Food

Well, the big publishers are betting on this topic. This month Alfred A. Knopf is releasing Robert Paarlberg’s Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat…

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Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…

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