We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.
The same phenomenon that pointed to a materialist explanation for spiritual and religious belief gave people an experience so powerful it convinced them of the existence of a nonmaterial reality—the v...
The microwave is as antisocial as the cook fire is communal.
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
Most recently, as the medical value of marijuana has been rediscovered, medicine has been searching for ways to pharmaceuticalize the plant—find a way to harness its easily accessible benefits in a pa...
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
If we're only going to eat the prime cuts of young animals, we're going to have to raise & kill a great many more of them. And indeed, this has become the rule with disastrous results for both the ani...
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Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic sal...
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer's bookshelf. Because what you're feeding your emotions and th...
What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?
To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from the corporations seeking to organize our every waking moment into yet another occasion for...
The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead. This
The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order...
The ads have also helped manufacture a sense of panic about time, depicting families so rushed and harried in the morning that there is no time to make breakfast, not even to pour some milk over a bow...
Science has little interest in, and tolerance for, the testimony of the individual; in this it is, curiously, much like an organized religion, which has a big problem crediting direct revelation too.
Quantum mechanics holds that matter may not be as innocent of mind as the materialist would have us believe. For example, a subatomic particle can exist simultaneously in multiple locations, is pure p...