Puzzles about the family farm
On his blog Applied Mythology, Steve Savage has a nice post on farmers in the US and Canada, with graphs showing how their numbers have dwindled and how efficient they…
Read morePure and Simple? Cheese and Ghee
Almost exactly a hundred years, in 1917, in Calcutta in India a controversy flared up about ghee (clarified butter). There ghee is no ordinary foodstuff. It is a wondrous golden…
Read moreIndian Cow Slaughter Policies and Food Journeys (Vikram Doctor)
Vikram Doctor of The Times of India wrote such an informative comment on the ironies and contradictions of beef politics in India that I asked his permission to post it.…
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