Here’s a thought experiment: Let’s pretend that human consumption of all soy products and bulk field corn dropped to zero in the coming marketing year, and that everyone knew this was going to occur. What would happen?
Cooking with My 19th-Century Quaker Relative
In the introduction to her 1845 cookbook, Domestic Cookery, Elizabeth Ellicott Lea writes, “[T]he Authoress offers to her young countrywomen this Work, with the belief that, by attention to its contents, many of the cares attendant on a country or city life, may be materially lessened…”
Where is My Jetpack?
In 1931 Winston Churchill claimed “fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”
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Gastronomica wins James Beard AwardGastronomica has been awarded the 2012 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Publication of the Year.
Ecology
On the Tomato Trail: In Search of Ancestral RootsChetelat is the director of the prestigious C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center at the University of California, Davis, the world's foremost repository of wild tomato plants and their seeds.
