Bread Riots. Again. This Time the Middle East.
Of the top 20 wheat importers for 2010, almost half are Middle Eastern countries. The list reads like a playbook of toppled and teetering regimes: Egypt (1), Algeria (4), Iraq…
Read moreCouscous. Can’t-Miss Festival and Origins of Mexican Couscous
I’m green with envy. I would give anything to be in Los Angeles on the 16th and 17th October, for the couscous festival, run by Susan Ji-Young Park, a frequent…
Read moreHunger, Bread, Free Trade, and the Moral Consumer
Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together. Last week I spent a good bit of time at a…
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