What’s In and What’s Out? Luxury Plant Foods in the Twentieth Century

Fashion in plant foods?  Well, yes. Spices become humdrum, kale rockets from cattle feed to pampered darling of the vegetable cooler in the supermarket. A month or two ago Stephen…

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Food: Farming is Only the Beginning

Food: Farming is Only the Beginning

If there’s one point I find myself making over and over and over again about food, it’s that farming is only the beginning. So do take a look at this great…

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The Japanese as a Wheat-Eating Nation

Sorry, folks.  I hit the publish on this before I meant to.  In any case an interesting story in Slate.  I’d actually put the beginnings of the Japanese move to…

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