So disgusting and pervasive is the odor of hog waste that a researcher who was hired to take measurements of particulate evidence in and around a number of massive hog barns is still exuding the noxious stink for many days after he returned home. He obsessively washes himself and … [Read more...] about Reality Stranger Than Fiction: Cramming Five Million Hogs Into Factory Farms (CAFOs) In North Carolina Causes Environmental Wastelands
Book Reviews
Cultivating Food Systems For A Changing Climate Happening Now
Agriculture is now inextricably linked to climate change. The evidence is incontrovertible; the damage is already taking place. As Laura Lengnick observes in the opening pages of her updated and expanded second edition of Resilient Agriculture, (New Society Publishers, Gabriola … [Read more...] about Cultivating Food Systems For A Changing Climate Happening Now
Nurturing Soil Life: Essential For Producing Healthy Crops and Animals
What Your Food Ate, How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, N. Y. 2022) is the startlingly portentous title of a new study by the married team of David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, a book that takes a remarkably thorough look at how and why … [Read more...] about Nurturing Soil Life: Essential For Producing Healthy Crops and Animals
Food-focused Picture Books Inspire Home Cook To Make Ukrainian Dumplings
Dumpling Day (Barefoot Books, Concord, MA, 2021), a children's book described by its author Meera Sriram as "For little kitchen helpers everywhere," is a book for a family to treasure, and to have handy, especially for a rainy day when the young ones need some positive … [Read more...] about Food-focused Picture Books Inspire Home Cook To Make Ukrainian Dumplings
Soup Kitchen Gastrophilanthropy That Enlightens, Entertains & Wins Your Heart
Stung with an attack of middle-class guilt, Stephen Henderson sought to expiate by helping to cook meals at a variety of soup kitchens around the world. Bringing a home-gourmet sensibility to these excursions, when placed in charge he designed menus not necessarily conducive to … [Read more...] about Soup Kitchen Gastrophilanthropy That Enlightens, Entertains & Wins Your Heart