Border Whores
…blossom to blossom. All plants care about is what every being cares about on the most basic genetic level: making more copies of itself. Through trial and error, plant species…
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Cruising on the Ark of Taste
…of well-heeled foodies getting together to celebrate the fast-disappearing virtues of the slow life: traditional foods traditionally prepared and eaten at leisurely communal meals. They aimed to save endangered domestic…
How to Make a Pond
…raise her thread of silk to the air in a pond upwind of here. Then there are the waterfowl, who carry on their feet and in their gut exotic cargoes…
Michael Pollan is Coming for Your Kid’s Plates
…Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is being reissued next month in a kid’s version. Retitled The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, the young reader’s…
The Way We Live Now: Feeding Frenzy
…who was going to notice or care if one more high-tech link was quietly added to a food chain already so long and intricate? We are the people who eat…
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
…answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something…
How to Feed the World
…world grain prices: the growing appetite for meat in places like China and India. Most of the world’s grain goes to feed animals, not people, and meat is a very…
Botany of Desire
…different variety and will be inedible. You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. GWEN IFILL: And they’re not American fruit. MICHAEL POLLAN: They’re not, no….
An Organic Chicken in Every Pot
…disruptors and carcinogens, an unambiguously better kind of food to eat. That more Americans will now be able to make that choice is something to cheer. As I suggested, however,…
The Intoxicating Garden
…see as you come through the gate are flowering plants and tasty things to eat — another garden telling that comforting old story in which nature gratifies human desires for…