The Currency of Nature
For the most part, mothers want us to be happy, right? When they used to tell us, “Go outside and play,” it wasn’t just because they were sick of us,…
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March 25, 2013
Pitchfork Politics, New-Age Style
In these recent decades of flash floods, cracked earth and county-size forest fires, we small-scale farmers and gardeners are charring like cherry pies in an oven of political and cultural…
February 7, 2013
The Anthropology of Food, Part 4
Why Organic Food is Worth the Price Americans undervalue organic food both on the table and on the farm, for similar reasons. As a culture, we don’t yet recognize the…
April 2, 2012
The Anthropology of Food, Part 3
Making Regional Food Webs Work Old Perspective: Large companies like Kraft, Tyson, Conagra, Cargill, and Nestle have given us so much variety, so many convenient choices in all seasons of…
January 4, 2012
The Anthropology of Food, Part 2
Shopping for Change or More of the Same? At the supermarket we make choices based not just on price, but relationships, associations, emotions, memories, identity, and values. Using multi-focus lenses,…
December 26, 2011
The Anthropology of Food, Part 1
Food is the most universal symbol of America’s age of excess. The average American’s dinner comes from five different countries, with a combined airfreight and ocean freight mileage tab that…
December 25, 2011
