Secretary of Food

I really want to write about woks.  But how can I contemplate the appearance of woks in the 3rd or 4th century AD in China when one of the burning…

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An Economist versus a Foodie on Parmesan

The world is bailing out banks and car companies. Italy is coming to the rescue of parmigiano cheese. In an effort to help producers of the cheese commonly grated over…

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Thinking Through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: Preliminaries

OK. Here’s what I am going to do. Michael Pollan had thirteen printed pages for his Farmer in Chief article in the New York Times Magazine. I can’t churn out…

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