Mo Yan: The Garlic Ballads Mo Yan: The Garlic Ballads

I don’t understand China, but I decided to read The Garlic Ballads by this year’s Nobelist in Literature, Mo Yan. I don’t understand t...

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11.25

School Lunch School Lunch

School lunches are much in the news this fall, as recently-enacted nutritional standards are mandating changes. The public schools in St. Pa...

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15.27

Disorder as art in food photos Disorder as art in food photos

Not all food in art is perfect, as many Renaissance artists illustrated. In a current New York times article, photographer Laura Letinsky&#...

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15.24

McDonald's Everywhere McDonald's Everywhere

Here: a wonderful illustrated round-up of McDonald's adaptations in other lands. I would love to try some of them, like the Moroccan M...

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04.55

What makes us human? What makes us human?

Very early hominids at some point learned to eat cooked food. This allowed evolution of "smaller guts, bigger brains, bigger bodies, an...

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08.31

A Judgement of Foodies A Judgement of Foodies

"Let's start the foodie backlash" by Steven Poole, a very long and ranting article  in The Guardian , condemns many things abo...

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13.30
 
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