Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing or,
Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer.
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...
Gopnik has tested this hypothesis on children in her lab and has found that there are learning problems that four-year-olds are better at solving than adults. These are precisely the kinds of problems...
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...
Handling these plants and animals, taking back the production and the preparation of even just some part of our food, has the salutary effect of making visible again many of the lines of connection th...
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...
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...
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 prized, too, the almost perfect transparency of this meal, the brevity and simplicity of the food chain that linked it to the wider world.
In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to how a culture eats as well as to what it eats.
In nature health is the default, he pointed out. Most of the time pests and disease are just nature’s way of telling the farmer he’s doing something wrong.
In the modern view, the pitched roof was itself a dead concept, but equally unhealthywere all those other dead concepts that got stored underneath the gable, in the attic. For there is where the ghost...
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to...
It’s often said that a political scandal is what happens when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth.
I’ve begun to wonder if perhaps these remarkable molecules might be wasted on the young, that they may have more to offer us later in life, after the cement of our mental habits and everyday behaviors...
Maybe to be in a garden and feel awe, or wonder, in the presence of an astonishing mystery, is nothing more than a recovery of a misplaced perspective, perhaps the child’s-eye view; maybe we regain it...
Mendel Kaelen, a Dutch postdoc in the Imperial lab, proposes a more extended snow metaphor: Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled afte...
Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves and all the other species on which we still depen...
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