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Let’s Call It Assimilation Food

Soleil Ho Taste
When immigrants adapt to their new surroundings, the most immediate way this happens is through the food they make: They look around at what’s available and try to make it into something they can recognize.

Pimento-Cracy

Cynthia R. Greenlee Oxfam America
Pimento cheese’s history is one of migration and a food’s class-switching. The hankering for an exclusive ingredient created a new labor market and a broader appetite.

Algae: The Food of the Future of the Past

Livia Gershon JSTOR
In the years following World War II, American and European food scientists hoped to feed the world with common pond scum supplemented with plastics. But it wasn’t just the unpleasant flavor that killed the algae craze.

Smart’ Packaging Preserves Food and Enhances Safety Without Plastic Waste

Amy Roeder Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Alternative “smart” packaging material using biodegradable corn protein, starch, naturally derived biopolymers and nature inspired antimicrobials keeps harmful bacteria and spoilage microorganisms off food and plastic pollution out of the environment

Does the Food Pantry of the Future Involve Payment?

Chris Costanzo Counter
A monthly fee is very out of the ordinary in charitable food, but Rumpsa noted that it’s a minor aspect of the new model. Food Club is more about offering convenience in an uplifting environment along with choice and high-quality food.

Honoring the Ukrainian Roots of American Wheat

Amy Halloran Modern Farmer
The flavorful grains that transformed the North American prairies during the 19th century into a continental breadbasket were varieties native to Ukraine’s Black Earth districts of Crimea and Galicia [now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine].