January 20th, 2009
The name of this flatbread elicits more questions than the name of any other. Why? What does it mean? Who was Stephen Jay Gould? My academic training is in the life sciences, so I have a bent toward scientific principles. It was in these studies that I was introduced to the biological logic of organic [...]
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January 20th, 2009
The Acts of Hand and Heart Food Remembers is a belief that food has memory. Each piece of food we eat and prepare has its own story of where it came from, how it was cared for, grown, and slaughtered. Each one of these stories represents the food we eat every day. Food has a [...]
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January 14th, 2009
Deep food is a philosophical, scientific, social and political event. It is a broad and largely spontaneous response to the enviromental and human health crisis brought on by the industrial food model. Deep food is a paosophy whose central thesis holds that food is important, and that it can be, and indeed needs to be, [...]
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