Locavores Gone Wild?
The winner of food writer Michael Ruhlman‘s “BLT from Scratch Challenge,” Jared Dunnohew, harvested his own salt from sea water (25 liters for one kilo of salt), smoked his own bacon (with wood...
View ArticleAre Farmers' Markets That Good for Us?
James McWilliams is a historian at Texas State University and author of the new book “Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly”. (Yes, that is a hackle-raising...
View ArticleLet the Farmers' Market Debate Continue
James McWilliams is a historian at Texas State University and author of the new book “Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly”. (Yes, that is a hackle-raising...
View ArticleIs Locavorism for Rich People Only?
James McWilliams is an historian at Texas State University and author of the new book Just Food. He has blogged here before, critiquing locavorism and is back with a series of posts on farmers’...
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Locavores Moving the Markets
Monica Almeida/The New York Times Dairy farms: from small to huge, then back to small. I grew up on a very small farm in upstate New York. We mostly generated food for our own use, and didn’t sell much...
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Lessons of the Listeria Outbreak: Do Locavores Make Us Less Safe?
Photo: Royalty-free image collection As the death toll from listeria in cantaloupe reached 25 this week, marking the deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in a quarter-century, some industry insiders...
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The Inefficiency of Local Food
Photo: empracht Two members of Congress earlier this month introduced legislation advancing a food reform movement promising to help resolve the great environmental and nutritional problems of the...
View ArticleSmart Stuff From the Comments
From a reader named Paul Kilmartin, in response to Steve Sexton’s post “The Inefficiency of Local Food”: Well, if we’re going to think like economists, then lets talk about how we got here. The food...
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The Prius Driver’s Conundrum
For a singularly grim, if fiercely literary, assessment of the earth’s environmental fate, the grizzled wisdom of Cormac McCarthy is always there to deliver the dark pronouncement that we’re flat-out...
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Extreme Locavorism
(Photo: NatalieMaynor) As part of The Decolonizing Diet Project, a new study at the School of Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University, a group of 25 volunteers will spend the next year...
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“A Guide to Meat Consumption for Vegetarians”
You never know what Freakonomics Radio listeners will come up with after listening to our podcasts. Here, from Josh Miner, is a response to our recent episode “Which Came First, the Chicken or the...
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