Search Results

Displaying 25 - 48 of 218
ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill

Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future

… want to eat regrowing in that water, so that, you know food and water and humans kind of connected together in this … system that we have, in order to, to be able to get the food that they wanted, or needed. We see a profound change … where humans stay in one spot, and then grow the food they need in that spot. And, and then live in that way. …
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 …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… use of improved technologies in current and new crops, in food transformation … [and] in marketing” with the goal of … researchers believed, communities could produce more food on their limited land and increase overall prosperity, … In each case, sponsors in the Global North sought to boost food production in nations of the Global South with the goal …
Red and yellow test tubes on cover of Health Technology and Science ibook

Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday

… Events in Historical Perspective — explores the role of food, disease, science, and technology in the human past and … provide for solving today’s most urgent global problems of food, population, disease, medicine, and technology. … Origins.osu.edu Table of Contents Page Chapter 1: Food and Human Population Feast and Famine: The Global Food …
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.

A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

… each year that traces of it can be found in a cornucopia of food products ranging from Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to beer … Carson warned us about these issues— contaminated food, aggressive cancers, and super weeds—in Silent Spring. … 2016 the number of organic farms and the sale of organic foods in the U.S. doubled and nearly 5 million acres of …
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 …
Image of Adonis on a red-figure squat lekythos.

Easter: A Season of Renewal

… the return of migratory game, the reemergence of wild food plants, the warmth of lengthening days, the retreat of … Food & Agriculture …
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.

Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip

Review of Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America, by Lawrence J. Nelson and Matthew G. Schoenbachler (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)
… sort of inferiority complex misses the mark. For lovers of food history, this book is a trove, detailing menus as the … 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.
… Food & Agriculture …