Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
Early computer engineers relied on LSD in designing circuit chips,
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been women...
The microwave is as antisocial as the cook fire is communal.
One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between our everyday acts and their real-world consequences....
Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist
If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were....
DON’T GET YOUR FUEL FROM THE SAME PLACE YOUR CAR DOES.
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lo...
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Allowing him to conduct clinical research on LSD in the United States—this even though he had a third-grade education
You can't regulate integrity
What is most troubling, and sad, about industrial eating is how thoroughly it obscures all these relationships and connections. To go from the chicken () to the Chicken McNugget is to leave this world...
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products,...
The quest for an ever-whiter shade of bread, which goes all the way back to the Greeks and Romans, is a parable about the folly of human ingenuity -- about how our species can sometimes be too smart f...
Savannah gave little thought to her habit during the journey, except toward the end when she pictured herself as a smoking gargoyle. You know how gargoyles look, crouched down with their shoulders hun...
Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture...
Our food system depends on consumers’ not knowing much about it beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not know...