How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and histo...
Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on earth. Though indispensable to the health of the planet (as recyclers of organic matter and builders of soil), they...
For the first time since embarking on this project, I began to understand what the volunteers in the cancer-anxiety trials had been trying to tell me: how it was that a psychedelic journey had granted...
For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed...
Eating puts us in touch with all that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It defines us.
EAT WILD FOODS WHEN YOU CAN.
EAT WELL-GROWN FOOD FROM HEALTHY SOILS.
EAT MEALS.
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.
Christianity and capitalism are both probably right to detest a plant like cannabis. Both faiths bid us to set our sights on the future; both reject the pleasures of the moment and the senses in favor...
Carhart-Harris suspects that the loss of a clear distinction between subject and object might help explain another feature of the mystical experience: the fact that the insights it sponsors are felt t...
As fire’s presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful.
A successful local food economy implies not only a new kind of food producer, but a new kind of eater as well, one who regards finding, preparing, and preserving food as one of the pleasures of life r...
A single unmowed lawn ruins the whole effect, announcing to the world that all is not well here in utopia.
One-fifth of America’s petroleum consumption goes to producing and transporting our food.)
Seems to be a rule of nutritionism that for every good nutrient, there must be a bad nutrient to serve as its foil, the latter a focus for our food fears and the former for our enthusiasms. A backlash...
Psilocybin was introduced to the West by a vice president of J. P. Morgan
Century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. No...
A cross between a spa/retreat and a gym, where people can experience psychedelics