This morning in the New York Times, author Andrew Beahrs contributed an op-ed piece on the vanishing place of wild foods on the American holiday table. Invoking Mark Twain and the original pilgrims, he recounts the local diversity that once graced our meals and the gradual shift towards sameness and domestication. I do have a [...]

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The New York Times reported yesterday that France has been staging a bid for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to recognize French cuisine as a world cultural landmark. This effort raises a lot of interesting questions about where food fits into our heritage and history. When you begin to look at [...]

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