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Repast: The First Lady of Butter
Butter sculpting, from women’s work to visual artform
Series
Plants behind glass: a retrospective of greenhouses
Uprooting structures of control and power in horticultural history
Interview
On Constructing a Food Archive
Maintaining Dalit Memory and Recipes with Rajyashri Goody
Profile
From Dirt to Doorstep
Why Bermuda's Only Organic Farmer Turned to Politics
Profile
Kurt Evans and the Black Dragon
A Philadelphia Chef Reimagines The Modalities of a Modern-Day Chinese Takeout Restaurant
Essay
Grow Your Own: A History of the Allotment
Profile
The Resilience of Rooted Beings
A conversation with Vivien Sansour on the future of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
Interview
Cakes for Climate Change
Making Science Sweeter with Rose McAdoo
Essay
Tomayto, tomato: a centuries-long obsession
From tomato trials to tomato girl summer
Interview
Ikenga Wines and the Bio-Design Beverage Revolution
Profile
Recipes From the Afterlife with Ghostly Archive
Project
Cultivating Change with Choy Commons
The Asian American Farming Coalition Building a Community-Based Food System
Essay
Repast: Pasta e basta
The evolution of ancient sustenance into pantry staple
Essay
Form Follows Function: The Lost Art of Napkin Folding
Essay
Breaking the Mold With Jelly
The transformation of a bland byproduct into worldwide convenience food
Essay
The Best Thing Since
The rise and fall of the sliced supermarket loaf
Series
Consumerism, Class and Competitive Eating
America’s history of eating competitions as entertainment
Series
Savouring Seaweed
Macroalgae’s tangled history: from Indigenous food source to climate mitigation
Essay
Repast: Frosted Flakes’ Food Guilt-Laden Past
Breakfast Cereal's 150-year evolution from religious health food to children's snack
Essay
REPAST: Grapes Galore
From ancient cultivation to the cult of natural wine
Interview
Wearing Sugar Melon
A Conversation with Peiming Song
Interview
Survival Food with Grace M. Cho
The Tastes Like War author on food's role in trauma, memory and healing
Profile
Repast: Angelo Pellegrini and the Good Life
Profile
Repast: Hildegard of Bingen and the healing power of green
Self-Care in the Middle Ages
Profile
Repast: Beyond Cottage Core with John Seymour
A British pioneer in self-sufficiency gets back to the land
Essay
The Green Revolution and its Complexities
The Green Revolution was hailed as a miracle cure for hunger. So why are the consequences still threatening farmers’ livelihoods, as well as the environment?
Essay
M.F.K. Fisher and the Art of Eating Through a Crisis
A great American food writer’s guide to eating in wartime holds even more relevance today
Profile
Methods & Provisions: Meeting Mirna Bamieh
The artist behind Palestine Hosting Society on cultural memory, rituals and Fairuz
Essay
Viva La Causa
Designing a Union for Farm Workers
Profile
Grasslands and the Gut
Eating, Evolution and Ecology with Arjun Potter
Profile
A Sense of Place
The Soft Protest Digest on creating dishes to embody a city's past and present narratives.
Essay
REPAST: Horace Fletcher, the Original Food Faddist
Nicknamed “The Great Masticator”, Horace Fletcher adopted and encouraged an extreme food fad in the early 20th century –– to chew until food “swallowed itself”
Interview
Searching for Mycotopia
Doug Bierend on the interconnected nature of fungi
Interview
Multiple Metabolisms
From global capitalism to daily digestion, an interview with Hannah Landecker
Profile
Repast: Grete Lihotzky, the Social Architect
Margarete Lihotzky and her fellow architects designed a way out of post-war conditions for Frankfurt, creating the forerunner of modern kitchens for the urban working class.
Interview
New Appetites and Tastemaking
Mayukh Sen on the past and future of food writing
Project
The Crown Heights Coffee Shop Charting a Future in Mutual Aid
Daughter's co-owners on what it is like opening a community-centered business during the pandemic.
Profile
A Touchstone of Korean Sool-Brewing
The Heritage Microbial Practices at Hana Makgeolli
Profile
Geographic Dispatch #1: How Can Ecological Thinking Attend to Race?
The lens of Black Ecologies can inform new political interventions and ecological futures
Profile
REPAST: George Washington Carver, the Agricultural Educator
Carver transformed the lives of thousands of students, farmhands and families through his approach and advocacy.
Profile
REPAST: Alexis Soyer
The Victorian Celebrity Chef
Project
The Worker-Owned Wine Bar Serving Up Natural Wine With a Side of Anarchism
Profile
Kreung Cambodia
Inspiring New Food Futures through Khmer Preservation Techniques
Profile
Martí Guixé Takes Aim at Food Design with Cross Bones and a Slingshot