Eating those externalities

Food in America is too cheap. It’s really hard to get people to grasp that, even when they sort-of already…

47 mins ago

How to make money selling food

Here’s one of my biggest lessons from the past several years of helping to keep a small grocery store afloat:…

5 days ago

Grow your own reading

So I was going to post something keying off this morning’s Guardian story about the Russians threatening to dump cheap…

6 days ago

Mmm, financialized food

You don’t get cheap meat without cheap feed. And you don’t get cheap feed without cheap grain. That’s the basic…

1 week ago

Shrinkflation, meet assize

Chapter 4 of Food Margins has a whole chunk about the medieval Assize of Bread and Ale, and about how I…

3 weeks ago

Oh please. Read some history.

Honestly, I gnash my teeth a lot when reading food journalism (or rather, “storytelling” as it now tends to be…

1 month ago

COOL OFF

No, I’m not yelling. Just really interested and heartened to see so many farmers and ranchers going up against Big…

1 month ago

Anti-trust back from the brink?

The last time there was real appetite for going after anti-competitive practices in the grocery business was the 1930s. The…

1 month ago