Thank you Stathis Psillos for this generous, wideranging and thoughtful perspective.

akhivae I could not agree with you more and the history of it, at least that we can trace, is fascinating. Rachel Laudan once gave a great presentation on the foreign influences on Mexican cuisine. youtu.be/ShXJUOXZir8?si…

Finally finished Rachel Laudan's Rachel Laudan "From Mineralogy to Geology", man this lady isn't scared to speak up! The first printing was in 1987 but it reads pretty fresh to me!

I'm very pleased to announce that our new five-part docuseries, Juice: Power, Politics, & The Grid, will be out next Wednesday. Check out the trailer: Tyson Culver youtube.com/watch?v=MCHTTt…

I grew up with this cathedral always within my sight. And if I was not the first woman to read the lesson I 700 years, I was one of the first.

For anyone interested in American food in the twentieth century, this dive into food labels is fascinating.

Also, however you define white in the US doesn’t necessarily apply to Latin America, where whiteness is achievable through wealth, education, and generations of “mejorando la raza” There’s no single objective “correct” definition of what counts as white bc race is made up

scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/mariocaccamo5

Important new work based on primary sources on the cuisines of the Deccan (present day Karnataka) ca. 1131 CE. Half-a-dozen sources from ca. 1100-1700 CE interrogated This radically transforms the historiography of eating and cooking in South Asia ** Meat on and off the

The International Society of Neurogastronomy met here in Lexington, Kentucky a couple of weeks ago. I learned so much. Here's a report. rachellaudan.com/2024/05/how-to…

Advocates of "people-first" language are pushing to stop using "obese" as an adjective -- use "people with obesity" instead. If you're gonna police language, there better be a good reason. There isn't. Let's stop. Me in The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Los viajes y la colonización entre los siglos XV y XVII conllevaron una primera forma de globalización no solo económica, sino también de la comida. Por Rachel Laudan en #NUSO311 nuso.org/articulo/311-g…

I mentioned to my real estate agent that I had been at an environmental conference in California. "We're doomed, right?" she replied. So yes, reduced to inaction by persistent catastrophizing.

A post on food waste in fruits and vegetables by Reobert Shewfelt who really knows what he's talking about. processedfoodsite.com/2024/06/07/was…

Pretty much all that needs to be said about the UK general election in one place. Enjoy.

Three things I learned from my husband's dementia. rachellaudan.com/2024/07/three-…

I wrote this short everyday object piece about the Nutrition Facts label for The Conversation U.S. : theconversation.com/nutrition-fact…. Check it out! You'll learn some surprising facts about this familiar food label. #FromLabeltoTable

Happy to this article of mine still has relevance.

For all my Venezuelan friends. There's a lot going on in the world right now. And what's going on in your country is more crucial than many other headline stories. Rooting for you