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A communal oven helps a community to bake bread and rebuild after two massive earthquakes.

A giant haul of food and agriculture goodies, all of which show that things are neither just nor simple.

The law that protects pubs from the perceived challenge of restaurants was passed by a Parliament full of publicans

The biggest meat recall, the weirdest market economy, old cheese, bitters and bread. A diverse diet, for sure.

Unless you already know what you’re doing, modern cook-books may be a recipe for disaster.

Newsletter portion sizes are more manageable again, with threats bacterial, nutritional and political. Plus some history and my ruminations on last meals.

“[I]t’s hard to see the modern last meal in America as actually being about anything.”

“Food is essentially the sentence,” says Clair Woods-Brown.

I first visited the United States as a camp counsellor in Vermont. On my first or second day, trying to maintain some semblance of order at the dining table during lunch, one of the boys accidentally knocked over his cup of Kool Aid. Another boy reached for some slices of fluffy Wonder Bread to mop […]

Picking up the thread again, my gleanings from around the web, shared in the spaces between podcast episodes.