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Vegetables, A Made-Up Category? And So?

By Rachel Laudan November 20, 2011 Food Politics, Modern Food 1 Comment

A post from Slate is flying round the web.  Vegetables are a made-up category, the author Benjamin Phelan, a writer living in Louisville, suggests, because they do not belong to…

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Is a Taco a Sandwich: Or How Do We Classify Foods?

By Rachel Laudan November 14, 2008 Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 1 Comment

Every so often my past pops up.  Once upon a time, I studied why we classify things and how we do it.  So my answer to the question “Is a…

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