The conventional wisdom, often repeated by leading pundits in the food world, is that home cooking is disappearing with deleterious consequences to our health and
Tag: Michael Pollan
Do We Need Psychoanalysis to Learn to Eat Well?
In his recent interview with Ezra Klein, Michael Pollan expresses puzzlement at the Obama administration’s reluctance to take on the food industry. “The energy sector
Will Junk Food Really End Obesity?
The Atlantic Monthly, a well-known and (in some circles) respected publication, published an article last week by David H. Freedman entitled “How Junk Food Can
A Short History of the Food Revolution (and its future)
If you want a quick history of the “food revolution”—the increased attention to all things food-related in the U.S.—you could do worse than this wonderful
Why Food? Why Now?
Interest in food has exploded in the past decade in the U.S. America has found its palate after being a food wasteland for much of
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 