Potato-based photographs of the Progressive Era
Earlier this week I dropped in to see The Artist’s Garden at PAFA, an exhibit I’ve been excited to see since I worked on the exhibit catalog for my previous […]
Category Archives: Science
Food Music Playlist #10: Got Milk?
I’ve been enjoying a reread of Barthes’ Mythologies, a collection of short semiotic studies of the foods, entertainments, and obsessions of mass culture. In “Wine and Milk,” Barthes picks up on an idea […]
Link Buffet: Thanksgiving Links
Artist Hannah Rothstein plates traditional Thanksgiving dinners in the style of modern artists such as Mondrian: At NPR, the ever-sharp Linda Holmes has a delightful takedown of NYT’s list of Thanksgiving […]
Link Buffet: Delicious by Design
Love this Pantone beer packaging: Gastro-architecture by Nicholas Blechman: Savor the Science is quickly becoming my favorite feature at the RENDER blog. I had a general idea about plant chemical […]
Link Buffet: Kitchen, community, country
With food, it’s not just that the personal is political. How we eat, what we buy, and where we get it are deeply influenced by the circulation of food, money, […]
Quick hit: Spurious Correlations
Contemporary discussions of food issues are so often hindered by slippery statistics and dubious science, so I’ve been enjoying a site which playfully makes a point out of “correlation does […]
Link Buffet: Achievements Unlocked
It made me sad to see my blog so empty for the month of May while I had my hands full with some big work projects. I went into my […]
Cheese science!
We’ve been getting snow after snow this month, and have lost several days at the office (as well as heat in our building!) due to inclement weather. One afternoon, as […]
Link Buffet: Definitions
. . . legal and cultural. I’ve been meaning to post this forever, but in the Spring 2012 Dissent, Mark Engler offers a straightforward, informative overview of three movements toward ethical growing and […]
CSA Week 7: When Brassica attacks
It’s Brassica time, people. This week we got: cabbage, romaine, sugar snap peas, scallions, garlic scapes, cauliflower, kale, and kohlrabi. I bought asparagus and strawberries from the farmstand while they […]
