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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).
… a dual purpose: memorializing both the recipe’s author and food.  Recipes survived their writers, preserving their … death. At the same time, a recipe retained instructions for food already cooked and long ago eaten, allowing for its … form of necromancy, recipes allowed for the creation of food from the past and thus a relationship with the dead. …
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 …
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 … Service … Global/Transnational … Christianity … Ancient … Food & Agriculture … Easter: A Season of Renewal …
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, … … Global/Transnational … Water … Climate Change … Food & Agriculture … 4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up …
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 … States … Soviet Union … Diplomacy/International Relations … Food & Agriculture … Cold War … Khrushchev’s Great American …
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 … … Global/Transnational … Indigenous Communities … Pacific … Food & Agriculture … Science & Technology … Built Upon Bounty …
advertisement with bi-plane dusting over a field and two farmers talking about it

Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was published in the summer of 1962.
… … Environment … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Food & Agriculture … Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent …
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 …
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains

Why the Great Plains Are Dying

… Service … United States … Climate Change … Environment … Food & Agriculture … Water … Why the Great Plains Are Dying …
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.
… exporter of key commodities. … Ian M. Sheldon … Europe … Food & Agriculture … Former Soviet Union … Russia … Ukraine …

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. …