It’s Labor Day. A good day to remember, especially in the current political climate, that without immigrants our fields would look like this:
Category: Contemporary Food Culture
The Thai That Blinds: Pok Pok PDX
I’ve got one shot, one night in Portland, and way to many good restaurants from which to choose. A first world problem to be sure
Shameless Self-Promotion
My book on the philosophy of food is now in production. Cool cover, eh? Entitled American Foodie: Taste, Art, and the Cultural Revolution, it is
Farm to Fable
It was bound to happen but it is no less disappointing for being inevitable: Like any good movement, farm-to-table has now been severely co-opted. The
A Defense of Eating Meat
Earlier in the week, Grist’s food writer Nathaniel Johnson published an article in which he claims philosophers have failed to even take up, let alone
A Problem for Vegetarianism
I respect people who for moral reasons decline to eat meat. But many vegetarians assume that eating vegetables produces no animal pain or death and
