Good Food is Everybody's Business
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Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing.
Rachel Botsman, co-author of the recently released What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, spoke at the recent The Feast Conference about the …
“Cheap food is cheat food.” Raj Patel hones in on what it means to have corporate monopolies that can manipulate both price and supply, coupled with a free market philosophy that hijacks government oversight and public protection, where the price of something bears little relation with its true value.
Good Food is everybody’s business. How is it then that the goodness of food eludes us? The modern food industry has made food cheap and plentiful; disguising the true cost.
Have you ever wondered why a bunch of carrots costs more than a package of Twinkies?
The Cost of Food is a recording of Raj Patel’s keynote at the College of the Atlantic’s food conference Food for Thought, Time for Action: Sustainable food, farming and fisheries for the 21st century, October 2009.
On his first assignment, our Northeast correspondent Richard Romano surveys the Natural Products Expo East trade show and conference. During his trek through the aisles, …
In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the “counter cuisine” in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola, herbal tea, and other “revolutionary” foodstuffs into profitable products; the popularity of vegetarian and vegan diets; and the increasing availability of organic foods.
