An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Five | Biotech: A Tool for Sustainability
In the last volume of our Culinary Modernist Reader, we looked at farmers who are practicing sustainable industrial agriculture and showing that it does not […]
Month: June 2015
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Four | On the Farm: The Quest for Better
In volume three of this series, we “stress tested” the legs of the locavore stool: Small. Local. Organic. Here we turn to efforts to farm […]
Daily Essentials | 4 June 2015
101 COOKBOOKS | Tumeric Cashews When it comes to broad strokes, I get it. You want to encourage, nourish, support your internal bacterial community. The […]
Feedback Loops, Institutional Reform and the Pitfalls of a Second Best World
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older posts and essays from REALFOOD.ORG. This piece was originally published on My professional […]
The Need to Save Seeds is a Bad Sign
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older posts and essays from REALFOOD.ORG. This piece was originally published on 22 October […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Three | A Corrective to [Small. Local. Organic.]
In our last volume, we looked at attempts to grapple with and improve fast food and convenience foods. Here we stress test the three legs […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Two | Comestibles: We Need Better Fast Food, Junk Food & Convenience Food
What does improving our diet look like for the consumer who doesn’t want to eat like their great grandparents and how can technology and the food industry develop more sustainable, more nutritious foods for the contemporary eater? We need better convenience food.
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume One | Opening Salvos
Food and Farm Discussion Lab member Rachel Laudan’s essay in Jacobin entitled “A Plea for Culinary Modernism” set off more than a ripple when it […]
Daily Essentials | 2 June 2015
KQED | ‘Just Eat It’ Demonstrates a Widespread System of Food Waste The filmmakers have come up with novel ways to demonstrate just what this […]
Can we leave the GMO discussion Clown Car behind?
[Please consider supporting FAFDL.org by making a donation to our library.] Over the weekend I had the misfortune of getting sucked into the discussion thread […]
Daily Essentials | 1 June 2015
In honor of #NegroniWeek: SAVEUR | 8 Variations on the Negroni First created for Count Camillo Negroni in 1919 at Florence’s Café Casoni, the Negroni […]