Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
In business, success and growth are generally synonymous. There’s a generalized feeling that if something isn’t growing it is dying. Think of Amazon, which lost money for nine consecutive years...
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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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It's Time to Give Up On Lab-Grown Meat
Whether or not lab grown meat ever makes it into grocery stores will hinge on cost. No one disputes the fact that certain genetic lines of cow cells can be...
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Grilled Chicken Wings in Miso Marinade
Confession time: I don't like wings very much. At least, I don't like the ones that come from a pizza parlor, deep fried then tossed in so much syrupy sauce...
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Lunchables and Microplastics
The Focus on Lead A recent study by Consumer Reports found elevated, though not illegal, levels of lead and cadmium in prepackaged lunch meals. Lunchables is the most famous version,...
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Bringing Down The Industrial Food System
The story of food for the past hundred years has been one of industrialization. This is true of farming — we’ve gone from horses to 600 horsepower tractors — but...
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New York is Losing Small Farms
Between 2017 and 2022 New York lost 2788 farms, a more than 8% decline. It was concentrated in small farms; the number of operations with over 500 acres actually increased....
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Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea
By taking standard rice, coating it in a layer of fish gelatin and microbial transglutimase, immersing the grains in a nutrient bath seeded with beef muscle and fat cells, waiting...
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Thin-Sliced Beef with Scallion and Crunchy Chili Oil
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, I always associated thinly shaved beef with cheesesteaks. Perhaps I would have assented on some abstract level that it could be used for other dishes,...
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How to Think About Microplastics
I have a strong intuition that consuming thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of microscopic beads of plastic, some unknown number of which doubtless become lodged within my body,...
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How to Identify Ultra-Processed Foods
If you’re like me, the term ultra-processed food (UPF) evokes images of chips coated in cheese dust so incandescently orange that each is a small sun, too bright to gaze...
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Why Eating a Healthy Diet is Incredibly Easy and Completely Impossible
When it comes to diet tidy answers are appealing. Carbs are the problem, or maybe it’s fat. Maybe The healthiest diet is to eat no meat at all, or to...
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Our Cardboard World
The boxes I use come from a plant out to the west, somewhere near Buffalo. Ordering them is always a thrill. “Send me 1000 fourteen inch cube boxes at your...
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Gratitude vs. Thanksgiving
Gratitude journals are fairly thick on the ground these days. Try to find a solution to most any problem, from raising an adolescent to an obsession with chocolate chip cookies...
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Lab Grown Meat and a Path Forward
On this blog I often take an interesting piece of news or commentary as a jumping off point. When it’s news — such as my post on porcine protein being...
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