Food Notes from an American Prison

“You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.”

The freedom Italian prisoners enjoy around food came as a shock

This is a way also to say “I’m a subject” in a place that tries to transform me into an object. I’m a subject. As a subject, I want to eat what I want today.

Poor people need money and they know what to spend it on

In 2005, Luisa Weiss launched The Wednesday Chef, an early food blog. Today she has three books to her credit and continues to write about food.

Selection had nothing to do with transforming grass into wheat, or any other aspect of domestication.

Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. And both countries had much to learn from the other.

The after-hours dish that conquered Ireland and the Irish everywhere.

In the end we can never know what people in the past tasted in their food, but a new method aims to come closer.

A new book shares more information about salt and ways to use it than you can imagine