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…
Read moreThe January 2007 “Tortilla Riots” in Mexico. Really?
I’ve been biting my tongue (or restraining my fingers) for months now. But yesterday an article in the New York Times once again took the protests in Mexico City against…
Read moreFood History and Food Politics
I’m writing this partly because I’ve now been blogging for about six months and it seemed time to take stock, partly because of Ji Young’s three long commentaries on posts…
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