‘Cities are centers of economics, culture, infrastructure, expertise, and they have a strategic role to play on the sustainable food file.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes from this week It’s still not too late in January to squeak in under the deadline on the theme of the major opportunity created last year, and the major challenge facing us this year. My…
Month: January 2016
Food Meditations: Taking the Pulse of a New Food Trend
My dad often said he ate enough beans and rice pudding during the 1930s Depression and 1940s World War to last him a lifetime. If I never see them again, it will be too soon, he’d tell anyone thinking of serving them to him. Those habits have carried over until today across North America and Europe, even though there are…
Food Meditations: A Mysterious Object Lesson in Food
I often wonder about the mystery of the modern food movement, at least in the urbanized Global North. Why did it emerge so late in history — so long after the labor movement or women’s movement, for instance? And why do people care so much more about local food than about local cars or clothes or energy? I think the…