What’s Not to Like About Industrially Processed Food?

I just spent two days at an a conference on the theme “Beyond Sweetness: New Histories of Sugar in the Early Atlantic World.” It was an exceptional gathering both in…

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The Grain Chain

A couple of weeks ago I was in Omaha, Nebraska. In the perfect fall weather, I drove across the Missouri. In the twin town of Council Bluffs, Iowa, I lingered…

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Blink. Could It Be We Might Have Dialogue, not Standoff, About Food Politics?

Do I detect a fresh breeze, a change in the air, an ebbing of the tide, well, enough of environmental metaphors, in the standoff between the food movement and US…

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