DON’T LOOK FOR THE MAGIC BULLET IN THE TRADITIONAL DIET.
Claude Lévi-Strauss described the work of civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked—nature into culture.
Charnay’s journey at Hopkins solidified her commitment to herbal medicine (she now works for a supplement maker in Northern California); it also confirmed her in a decision to divorce her husband.
Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an experience of the numinous to help them negotiate the second half of their lives.
By the grace of this forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time,
By now you will not be surprised to learn that Gaston Bachelard had a few things to say about the element of air. In a book called Air and Dreams. he points out that we categorize many of our emotions...
But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside...
But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what,...
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food compa...
But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.
But I contend that most of what we’re consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we’re consuming it—in the car, in front of the TV, and, increasingly, alone—is not really ea...
Barbecue brings people together, it always did and always will. Even in the sixties, during the race movements, barbecue was one of the things that held down the tensions. At a barbecue, it didn’t mat...
All he would tell me is that the experience, which took place in his meditation practice, acquainted him with something way, way beyond a material worldview that I can’t really talk to my colleagues a...
AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS.
AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING INGREDIENTS THAT ARE A) UNFAMILIAR, B) UNPRONOUNCEABLE, C) MORE THAN FIVE IN NUMBER, OR THAT INCLUDE D) HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child’s chances are two in f...
A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition compared the energy cost of different foods in the supermarket. The researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chip...
A month before our breakfast, Griffiths had received the Eddy Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, perhaps the most prestigious lifetime achievement prize in the field.
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
Wes Jackson calls our species homo the homogenizer.)