Cathy Stanton

I gave a library talk last night and had an unsettling conversation afterward with one of the attendees. I’d been…

One of the strands of history I follow in Food Margins is the Minute Tapioca Company saga, starting with its invention…

One of my senators (whom I admire and support, BTW) has joined the chorus blaming the rise in food prices…

Oh no! People in Massachusetts are buying less meat and doing more cooking from scratch. Strong regional chains like Market…

I love this longish read from philosopher and climate organizer Rupert Read on Aeon today. In answer to the slightly click-bait-y subtitle…

It’s good to hear more talk about the fact that we can’t solve problems caused by scale by trying to…

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

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

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

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