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Poking a Sharp Stick at the Farm

September 24, 2009

As green-clad protesters filled the streets of New York City in protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech before the United Nations, a different set of Greens is planning to gather in Madison, Wisconsin this evening. They are farmers, and their grievance, they say, is that they have been misrepresented in Michael Pollan’s books. Pollan’s book on […]

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Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Tom Still, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Laura Daniels, Food politics, Criticism, Context, Bill Marler, Bill Bruins, Agriculture, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Michael Pollan, Food
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Why Read about Food?

September 20, 2009

Culture, economy, health, family, spirituality. Food touches everything, draws everything in for us to savor, and so turns us outward to the world in which we participate.

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Shelved with: Reading the Table
Tagged With: Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Gabriel Zaid, Reading, Michael Pollan
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