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  • On Food and Education: Eleanor Barnett
  • On Food and Education: Inês Neto dos Santos
  • On Food and Education: Paola Antonelli
  • Far From the Madding Cows
  • This Bite Will Cost You
  • Better Food For Our Fighting Men

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Read cultural food historian Dr Eleanor Barnett's (@historyeats) answers to our 'Five Questions on Food and Education' on The Common Table website.
Read cultural food historian Dr Eleanor Barnett's (@historyeats) answers…
Read artist and co-founder of Food Cosmogonies Inês Neto dos Santos' (@inesns)
Read artist and co-founder of Food Cosmogonies Inês Neto dos Santos' (@inesns)
Read Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA Paola Antonelli's (@paolantonelli) answers to our 'Five Questions on Food and Education' on The Common Table website.
Read Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA Paola Antonelli's…
“Sometimes I tie myself in knots over what’s actually the right way to farm, but then I come back to thinking, ‘Hey, what a beautiful place we have here and we’re looking after the landscape as best we can.’”
“Sometimes I tie myself in knots over what’s actually the right way to…
“Should we be trying to restore and reverse habitat loss until we reach a pre-war state, or should we be focusing on designing new, climate-resilient landscapes?”
“Should we be trying to restore and reverse habitat loss until we reach…
“Am I a farmer? A grazier? A conservationist?” Fifth-generation farmer Frankie Guy talks about her struggles to meet expectations, budgets, regulations and principles as well as the joys of farming beef on Salisbury Plain in England.
“Am I a farmer? A grazier? A conservationist?” Fifth-generation farmer…
“When they are asked what they value a lot of people answer a nice answer, but standing in the supermarket, they tend to make different decisions.” Jeff Salter
“When they are asked what they value a lot of people answer a nice…
“When we can identify these issues in the value chain, we can calculate how much it would cost to restore, compensate, and prevent the infringement of fundamental human rights to achieve the true price of the product.” Michel Scholte
“When we can identify these issues in the value chain, we can calculate…
If you know anything about the MAD Academy in Copenhagen (founded by Noma chef Rene Redzepi and now led by Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson of Fäviken fame) you will probably know it as a place that serves up a menu of executive programmes for the hospitality industry led by progenitors of the New Nordic wave. So far, so elite, but it also hosts public talks. Priya Mani went to one of their MAD Monday events in a former warehouse three minutes walk from the Noma restaurant to hear a panel of experts discuss soaring food prices and their effect on farm-to-table principles and beyond.
If you know anything about the MAD Academy in Copenhagen (founded by…
“Amusing as it is to see things like a BiFi package – a popular brand of European sausage roll – labelled as “foreign technology: shelf stable sandwich, “Better Food For Our Fighting Men” serves up something more substantial than mere novelty. Nicol’s full spreads – deliberately relieved of commentary or argument – call attention to the (perhaps uncomfortable) interdependence that processed food and warfare share in industrial society.” Read the full article on our website (link in bio).
“Amusing as it is to see things like a BiFi package – a popular brand of…
“Subjects include rations for combat situations and emergencies as well as “dishes” for the more relaxed setting of the mess hall. They included freeze-dried blueberries, liquified ground beef, and sterilised “irradiated” ham (not to be confused with radioactive ham).” Read the full article on our website (link in bio).
“Subjects include rations for combat situations and emergencies as well…
A new book of US Army archive images called “Better Food For Our Fighting Men” showing research on rations for combat situations and emergencies as well as mess hall “dishes” triggers prepper considerations for our reviewer Alec Carver. Read the full article on our website (link in bio).
A new book of US Army archive images called “Better Food For Our…
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