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"Freedom From Want" - NARA poster 1943

The Spirit of 1947: This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace

… across America, stopping in cities and towns to collect food that would be shipped overseas. The Friendship Train … students took the initiative to organize collections of food for the train.   Americans knew that winning the war … grim reality, Congress is proposing to reduce international food aid.   Revisit 1947. Americans chose not to let hunger …
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.

Kitchen Wisdom

Review of Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen, by Wendy Wall (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

… context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you will find that one of the top five … everywhere in our daily lives. A sample bilingual U.S. food label reflecting recent FDA labeling requirements ( … we grapple more than ever with sugar's dominance in our food . A prevalence of sugar in the modern American diet has …
A traditional glass of Weissbier

Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot

… law, the Reinheitsgebot is today lauded as an early food safety regulation. And, as beer-making elsewhere has … point to their tradition as one of the oldest existing food purity laws, the World Health Organization has … Food & Agriculture …
Insects on white flowers

4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up

… Enjoy the following: " Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis ," by Chris Otter " Climate, Human Population, … Food & Agriculture …
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.

Built Upon Bounty

Review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, by Brian Fagan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… develop specialized roles in society that did not involve food production. A well-supported argument, it nonetheless … Food & Agriculture …
man with giant crab

A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters

… fishers boost their catches—and consequently sales of seafood—enormously. Large-scale, "industrial" fishing can be … that the oceans and seas could sustain an annual seafood catch of 200-350 million metric tons per year, more … Alaskan waters accounted for about one-half of the seafood caught in the United States. The dockside value of …
a man harvesting wheat - Lviv, Ukraine 1991 Wheat Harvest on Collective Farm 1991 by Manhhai, Flickr, cc-by 2.0

Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has returned to its pre-revolutionary positin as a major agricultural exporter of key commodities.

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… followed by a series of droughts, devastated the nation's food production. Further complicating the situation was the fact that China was also reducing its food aid significantly. Conditions were simply horrific. … and Japan, among others, helped to fill the void, providing food aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Suddenly, in …
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… related to the abject poverty of its people — demands for food, fuel and power-generating nuclear reactor technology. … that it provides the bulk of North Korea’s energy and food supplies, and it is threatening to restrict critical food and fuel aid further if North Korea does not negotiate. …