You’re making a sandwich. Whole wheat bread, toasted. Two slices of thickly cut tomato grown in your neighbor’s backyard, a handful of arugula, a swipe of mayonnaise, and a sprinkling of black pepper and kosher salt. Cut on the diagonal. By the looks of your lunch you might be quite the sandwich aficionado. But did you ever consider that instead [...]
In the contemporary United States most of us are alienated from the production of our food. This is no secret. While many of us might dabble in backyard gardening, savoring the few pounds of food we might have been able to extract from the soil, the majority of us get our food from the shelves of stores where our eyes [...]
Food. It is more than something to purchase, cook, and consume. Food is something more complex. Suspended in a web of meaning and activity, food has the ability to nourish, to cement relationships, to pay wages, to communicate identity, to follow or break protocols. Often times, it does all of these things at once. Of course, food alone is merely [...]
