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Five Reasons Why Home Cooking Should Go the Way of the Dodo: 1903 and 2018

By Rachel Laudan May 19, 2018 Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Modern Food, Taste 36 Comments
Five Reasons Why Home Cooking Should Go the Way of the Dodo: 1903 and 2018

Becoming a home cook was the last thing I wanted to do growing up. In those days, marrying meant embarking on cooking almost every day of the week. If you…

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Cattle as Food Processors

By Rachel Laudan July 25, 2014 Food Politics 6 Comments

A thought-provoking post from Jayson Lusk on the common and on-the-face-of-it plausible claim that grain-eating uses far fewer resources/much less energy than meat-eating.  His counter: I suspect only a very…

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