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Everyone’s read The Omnivore’s Dilemma. So why are we still talking about it?
We’re devoting this entire week to looking back on the decade since The Omnivore’s Dilemma was published. Follow our coverage here. A decade ago, Michael Pollan published The Omnivore’s Dilemma. To...
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Michael Pollan’s new Dilemma
If we could see what lies on the far side of the increasingly high wall of our industrial agriculture,” Michael Pollan wrote, in the introduction to The Omnivore’s Dilemma, “we would surely change the...
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The new food economy grows up
Dear Upton Sinclair, J.I. Rodale, Cesar Chavez, Rachel Carson, Dear Frances Lappe, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, Wendell Berry, first Whole Foods store, Dear Carlo Petrini, Alar scare, 1990...
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“Hummus might well be worth fretting over”
The “food movement” is a broad term for a political, social, and economic revolution. But it has no one leader, no single belief system, no agreed-upon primary goal. Instead, it’s a diverse, far-flung...
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Kummer and Pollan look back
Michael Pollan is the resident poet of the food movement. He would never think himself a poet, of course. But anyone who read and was knocked out by the sheer quality of the prose as well as the...
View ArticleWhy Big Food might not be too big to fail
Headlines in recent weeks have read a little like end times for Big Food. Yes, a handful of massive corporations still control the vast majority of the nation’s $1.5 trillion food industry. And yes,...
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A farm bill for the Instagram set?
In the past ten years, as slogans like “Vote with your fork” and “Know thy farmer” have popped up on tote bags and bumper stickers, a new class of conscientious eater has slowly started to reshape the...
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Rural America’s Trump vote was decades in the making. Democrats’ farm...
After Donald Trump’s surprising 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, commentators and journalists turned their attention to rural America—where Trump won three times as many votes as his opponent—in...
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