Time to update my slide deck

For my book talks this past year I’ve been illustrating how Minute Tapioca got swallowed up in a succession of…

12 months ago

The rich devouring the rich

This week in The Contrarian, the astute anti-hunger advocate Mariana Chilton frames the SNAP cuts in the Republicans’ Big Beautiful…

1 year ago

Shopping with our kiddie brain

At our co-op’s Annual Meeting last week, someone asked why we don’t have toddler carts for people who have their…

1 year ago

Stripped to the bone

Egg prices going up again and Americans are losing their minds, again. And I’m once again trying to figure out…

2 years ago

Read it and weep

There are moments when it feels to me like it’s just getting harder all the time to find clear, informed,…

2 years ago

I’d give this a gentleman’s C

It’s grading season and I’m reading the portfolios from my introductory food systems class. I’m finding them encouraging. They show…

2 years ago

Cathy versus the robot

I had a little meltdown this morning while checking my inboxes (truthfully this happens more often than is probably healthy).…

2 years ago