Places that Do Not Change

August 28, 2011

I’m traveling this week, visiting Penn State in my capacity is as a roving academic and professor of food ethics. (Here’s a link to my gig.) Aside from the places where I have actually been a student (Northern Colorado, Georgia Tech, Emory and Stony Brook) on the faculty (Texas A&M, Purdue and Michigan [...]

Places that Do Not Exist

August 21, 2011

The Sunday LSJ this morning is chock full of food stories. I was sort of partial to the item on huitlacoche that was tucked back a bit, because I virtually lived on tamales made with it when I was down in Oxaca for real a number of years ago. But the main thing [...]

Places that Do Not Suck

August 14, 2011

As we travel along life’s highway, it’s great to stop and have a good meal at a local eatery. You know the kind I’m talking about. The unassuming little shack off to the side of the road, a little bit rundown, with a parking lot full of pick-up trucks and Buick Park Avenues. [...]

Evolution

August 7, 2011

How ‘bout them jumbo squash we’re getting from the Thornapple CSA these days? I bet that’s even more evidence of diversity, don’t you?

See, here’s how evolution works in squashes: The normal ordinary garden squash has a deep-seated urge to realize it’s inherent (that is, God-given) potential for flourishing. It sits there in the [...]