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Even at its outset, tipping engendered feelings of anxiety and resentment. In the mid-1800s, after leaving the Bell Inn of Gloucester, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle complained: “The dirty scrub of...
View ArticleSmall Farms
Small farms, in my opinion, are not the future of agriculture. I’m asked all the time about why I hold this unfashionable position. It’s a tangled set of issues and I will post about several aspects...
View ArticleFueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution
So here’s Nicola Twilley’s transcript of Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution, the talk I gave at Postopolis 2010 last week in Mexico City. Do go to her post too because in addition to the...
View ArticleThe Grain Chain
A couple of weeks ago I was in Omaha, Nebraska. In the perfect fall weather, I drove across the Missouri. In the twin town of Council Bluffs, Iowa, I lingered in a lovely little museum commemorating...
View ArticleAgua Fresca 12: Horchata de Cebada (Barley)
Continuing with the complicated horchata family, let’s go on to horchata (or agua) de cebada, that is horchata of barley. Technically this is redundant because the word “horchata” comes from the Latin...
View ArticleMy Great Grandmother’s Industrially Processed Food
Warnings not to eat anything your grandmother (or great grandmother or great-great grandmother) would not recognize as food have echoed around the web since Michael Pollan first promoted this rule of...
View ArticleHeavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland
In this long post (you’ve been warned), I’m going to try to imagine the potato cuisine of the Irish poor in the century before the Great Famine of 1845-52. In part, I’ve been thinking a lot about this...
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