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 […]
Category Archives: Health
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 […]
The Stream re-cap: junk food, marketing, and more
On Thursday afternoon, I had the exciting opportunity to join Yazmin Khan, Yoni Freedhoff, and Hemi Weingarten on Google Hangout to talk to Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat. […]
Eating, enjoyment, and The Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins has been making a bit of a splash in the book business, not least because one of its main characters is morbidly obese. Though I suspect (perhaps with premature […]
Quick Hit: Mayor buys healthy food with stamps, is very hungry
You’re probably seeing all kinds of headlines about Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his participation in a challenge to see what it’s like to eat off of food stamps. But […]
Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body
In A Moveable Feast, the chapter “Birth of a New School” begins with Hemingway-as-narrator evoking the coolness and the cleanness of a café early in the morning, a seemingly pure […]
Taste Test the 3rd
Continuing with my periodic test-tasting in the name of science, I had a go at rating apple juice several weeks ago. This test was very straightforward: we sipped from plastic […]
Inside Out: Medical Students Play With Food
When we epicureans and food culturists talk about food, we’re not really interested in talking about digestion. While other bodily mechanisms may be considered fascinating or elegant–the runner’s fine machine of bone […]
