Too much money, too much food
More and more people are getting the idea that there’s too much money concentrated in too few hands in our…
Defending the marriage of convenience
With its threats to stop SNAP funding, the Trump administration is trying to rip apart the long-standing marriage of convenience…
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…
Can food be public without being big?
I want to jump on the public-grocery bandwagon. I really do. And I love Civil Eats and the work of…
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…
That weird aftertaste of food aid
Amidst the outcry about the damage and destruction to so much of the federal government structure in the US, it’s…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
