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What Immigrants Do Eat

Anand Giridharadas The.Ink
There may be no better case for the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything society America is becoming than the flavors. What would America eat, and be, without immigrants?

Can You Go Broke Eating Fruit?

Ethan Freedman Ambrook Research
Some produce purveyors offer exorbitantly priced fruit and claim unparalleled quality — but are we mostly paying for a status symbol?

Seafood Is Getting Riskier To Eat Due to Climate Change

Stacey Leasca Food & Wine
High heat can make seafood more dangerous for human consumption.
Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.

Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola

Marion Nestle https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/08/weekend-reading-soda-science/
This book reveals the work of the International Life Sciences Institute funded by Coca-Cola
This book reveals the work of the International Life Sciences Institute funded by Coca-Cola

An Entirely Serious Investigation Into Kamala Harris’s Cookbooks

Joshua David Stein Esquire Magazine
Harris’s passion for cooking is well-documented; the cookbook titles tell about the contours and range of her interest in the culinary arts. She values the restorative powers of cooking as part of a community; and she understands food as identity.

Have We Outgrown the CSA Model?

Lauren David Ambrook Research
Many farmers are adopting a “market credit” style model, giving customers the flexibility to choose what they want each week — if anything.
Many farmers are offering alternate direct-to-consumer models for purchasing their produce, adjacent to a CSA but with more flexibility.

Why Do Domestic Food Prices Keep Going Up When Global Prices Fall?

C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh network ideas.oeg
Rise in food prices can be traced to profiteering by large international agribusinesses and financial speculation in food commodity futures. Countries need domestic food sovereignty, regional arrangements to ensure supply, and volatility controls.

How the Potato Changed the Course of World History

Matthew Wills Jstor.org
The potato is native to the Andes, where it’s been cultivated for at least 4,000 years.
Historian William H. McNeill contends that the potato fundamentally changed world history. European armies marched on what they foraged locally even if it meant peasants starved to death as a result.