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Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became … Teaching Excellence … Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future, brought to you by the History Department, the …

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

… In June 2009, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that, … a nineteen-year high, and over thirty countries experienced food riots. "Hunger seasons" have become the norm in many … parts of the global south, and women bear the brunt of this food shortage. According to ActionAid International, women …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… reached 8 billion, the United Nations announced “the worst food crisis in modern history.”  The phrase “ global … inflation, and extreme weather.  A 2022 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2022), begins with …
SpaghettiOs in background, tv dinner, Tang bottle, Spam tin and Jello mold in foreground

SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods

After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord of pre-prepared, processed foods such as SpaghettiOs.
… After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord of other pre-prepared, processed foods: Jellos, TV dinners, frozen peas, dehydrated juices, … and Katherine Weiss. … After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord …
A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots

Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl

… and berries of all kinds. Before the locavore, organic food movement emerged, villagers and townspeople in Ukraine … of growing, cooking and preserving fresh, local, organic food. Food—getting it, husbanding it, putting it up—formed a major …
Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort.

The “Invisible Guest” World Food Campaign of the 1920s Should Be a Model for Us Today

… War left destruction far beyond the battlefields of Europe. Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come … Relief Administration, led by Herbert Hoover, provided food aid to Europe’s hungry long after the guns fell silent … following the 1918 Armistice.   In 1920, because Europe’s food production had not rebounded enough for them to feed …
a can of Spaghetti-Os

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

… the taste of the pasta and sauce. In this sense, it is a food source that completely disconnects “food” and “source.” During the 19 th  century, Americans … that only the most ignorant consumers would buy their food without knowing where it came from. Americans knew …

Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population

… much of the world media was reporting on a global crisis in food. A seemingly inexorable rise in the price of basic food supplies in 2007-2008 threatened poor populations … to contain the social unrest that followed. To explain this food crisis to an audience in St. Louis in May 2008, …
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.

Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?

… has overwhelmed aid agencies. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says that more than 11 million people desperately need life-saving food aid. Will Americans respond? History suggests that they … Millions were forced to flee their communities in search of food, but there was little to find. A letter published by …
Ration distribution point.

The Other War in Pakistan

… 1945, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower warned of the consequences of food shortages in Belgium and Holland, noting “the result … and disorders.” The United States and its allies provided food for the hungry even during the push to finish off the … part of the Netherlands. U.S. and British planes airlifted food, and days later Canadian truck convoys helped bring …
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.

Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking

Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
… In an age of the Food Network, Gourmet magazine, and Bon Appétit podcasts, it … as it is about cuisine.  The changes occurring in French food were intimately connected with the radical shifts in … University, Pinkard describes a revolution in the way food was conceived and produced over the course of seven …
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.

Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe

… on February 24, 2022, international agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United … to the world price of staples such as wheat and to the food security of developing countries.   While one would … expect an organization such as the FAO to be informed on food questions, the sheer number of stories in the popular …
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Famine: A Short History

Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… would result as human populations exceeded the supply of food.  In 1968, Paul Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of … as the normal crops failed, they had to rely on "famine foods": edible but unappetizing fruits, vegetables, seeds, leaves, pods, and shoots.  When food was available but expensive, people often purchased …
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover

Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… Erin Burnett ominously described "the skyrocketing price of food" and its effect on Americans' budgets. According to the report, the pain of rising food costs extends beyond the nuclear family to the nation's … Burnett that he can no longer afford fresh vegetables, seafood, and other nutritious items. "We used to have fresh …