Standing in Their Own Urine and Feces
That phrase (taken from Tana Butler’s comment a week or so ago), or something close to it, has become one of the slogans that food activists use to suggest that…
Read moreMore Tangled than a Oaxacan Cheese: More Detective Work
Was Oaxacan cheese developed from mozzarella-making techniques introduced to Mexico by Italians? And was this in the 1950s? I’m still mulling this over. In and of itself it’s perhaps not…
Read moreThe Japanese Butter Shortage: Changing Tastes and the Food Crisis
The Japanese are short of butter and considering emergency imports, according to the Wall Street Journal. How the worm turns, at least on the biggish historical scale. A hundred and…
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