Category Archives: Food

A Food Philosophy for Our Time?

It is clear that in much of the so-called developed world, food has largely lost its meaning beyond nourishment.  Julian Baggini has written about this, ten years ago in The Virtues of the Table, which is especially useful in considering how and why we eat.  More recently Baggini has expanded his range in How the […]

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Coffee Break: Scientists and the Growth Economy, Sternly Worded Letters, Scientist Runs Afoul of RFKJr, Timothy Snyder with the Editor of Science, and Wither Food

Dear gentle readers: Apologies for a somewhat ragged Coffee Break today.  Traveling in Scotland and time has been taken up with details (all good) along with a few unexpected disconnects (as in stuff happens). Part the First: Scientists to the Rescue?  Economic growth is not the answer to any of our problems in this finite […]

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