2018 FAFDL Thanksgiving Reader
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Star Wars, Tatooine Fennel and a Parallax View of American Cuisine
Principle photography for Star Wars began in the Tunisian desert in March of 1976. Just as location scouts were tasked with finding an other worldly landscape, some clever prop master was given the task with creating prop food for a Tatooinian lunch.
2018 Predictions: The Death Throes of the Anti-GMO Movement
The ability of the anti-GMO movement to frame the debate in mainstream venues has been waning. Is 2018 the year they return to the fringe?
2018 Predictions: GMOs 2.0, a turning point
Three new biotech products recently hit the market that have the potential to steer the GMO debate in more productive directions.
The Wonder of Christmas Food Past
Food historian Rachel Laudan recounts the Christmas meals of her childhood in 1950’s England and ponders whether children today can summon the same sense of wonder.
What Happened to the Holiday Pudding in America?
For much of our history, puddings played a large role in both our everyday and special occasion cooking. Today, not so much. Helen Zoe Veit explains why.
Farming or Gardening? What’s the Difference?
Food historian Rachel Laudan unpacks the historical differences between gardening and farming and the important roles they have played in different cultures. The “digging stick” vs the “plough”.
Thanksgiving Reader 2016
• The DES MOINES REGISTER reports that it will cost 24 cents less to prepare a typical Thanksgiving dinner this year, according to the American […]
“The fridge is outside. It’s quite big.” – Making Grilled Cheese in Antartica
“We need salami. For that we need to go to the fridge.” “Where’s the fridge?” “The fridge is outside. It’s quite big.”
On the History of the Impact of Family Farm on Families
Gabriel Rosenberg, a women’s studies professor at Duke, has a lays out some intriguing history of agricultural America that challenges on central idyll of American […]
The Agromodernist Reader | Volume Seven | Biology Fortified
In this volume of The Culinary Modernist Reader, we highlight the work of the ground breaking organization Biology Fortified. Founded on Halloween of 2008 by […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Why I’d Rather Be a Team Big Dissident, Than a Team Small Cheerleader
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Anti-GMO Activists Are the Ones Practicing Tobacco Science
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5 Big Drivers Behind the Chipotle Backlash
The last few days at Chipotle HQ could not have been much fun for the people running the marketing and public relations operation. The response […]
Some Carcinogens Are More Equal Than Others (sigh)
Following up on the glyphosate as carcinogen story, I couldn’t help notice some coverage that shows how political orientation informs the way different people cover […]
From the Department of “Be Careful What You Wish For”
Scientific American: In 2012 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of baby bottles that contain bisphenol A (BPA), a compound frequently […]
The Great Endocrinological Culture Shift
A recent Washington Post article on why it’s harder for women to lose weight underscores the great cultural shift that has taken place in nutrition […]