The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pre...
So what exactly would an ecological detective set loose in an American supermarket discover, were he to trace the items in his shopping cart all the way back to the soil? The notion began to occupy me...
So perhaps Leary's real sin was to have the courage of his convictions--his and everyone else's in the psychedelic research community. It's often said that a political scandal is when someone in power...
Shortly after Carhart-Harris published his results in a 2012 paper in PNAS (Neural Correlates of the Psychedelic State as Determined by fMRI Studies with Psilocybin*), Judson Brewer, a researcher at Y...
Real food is alive and there for it should eventually die.
Psychedelic drugs cause panic and temporary insanity in people who have not taken them.
Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone.
People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.
PAY MORE, EAT LESS.
One good way to understand a complex system is to disturb it and then see what happens.
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.
More birds on a farm mean fewer insects, but most birds won’t venture more than a couple hundred yards from the safety of cover. Like many species, their preferred habitat is the edge between forest a...
It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) .
If you hadn’t done what you did, he told Weil, I would never have become Ram Dass.
IF YOU HAVE THE SPACE, BUY A FREEZER.
I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food.
I had actually wanted to say something more, to express a wider gratitude for the meal we were about to eat, but I was afraid that to offer words of thanks for the pig and the mushrooms and the forest...
HERE’S WHAT I DON’T GET about an experience like Bob Jesse’s: Why in the world would you ever credit it at all? I didn’t understand why you wouldn’t simply file it under interesting dream or drug-indu...
Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the supermarket is a link in a food chain.
Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs, and other mammals].