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Eat This Newsletter 062

 

18 September 2017

  1. Real news about fake farmers, as Ontario deals with growing tensions at the farmers’ market.
  2. Further adventures in culinary appropriation. It isn’t enough merely to enjoy the food, you have to understand it, apparently.
  3. It’s a familiar story, but each version is different. Refugees cultivating community in urban spaces, Wollongong edition.
  4. South Africans spend more on beer than vegetables. I want to know, is beer expensive, or vegetables cheap?
  5. So, what comes to mind when a historian cook talks about “Orange Fool”? Not politics, surely.
  6. Bonus for super-wonks: Study examines the ‘United States of Corn’ and provides minute detail on where it grows, how it moves and where it ends up.

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