What You’ll Find Here

Food from every angle

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While food may finally be getting the attention it deserves, its impact on every corner of our world isn’t always acknowledged. But now, more than ever, it’s important that discussions around food fully reflect how it shapes both who we are and how we live. That’s why we — Kate Bittman, Melissa McCart, Daniel Meyer, and I — have teamed with Medium to create this site. With the help of many others (including, we hope, some of you), we’ll explore food and everything that it touches: agriculture, politics and labor; culture and cooking; identity, family and love.

We’re defining “food” broadly and, we believe, appropriately: You’ll find, for example, pieces on agriculture’s contribution to global warming; how to make killer beans and rice; how restaurant owners skirt wage hikes; memories of a grandmother’s favorite dish; how northeastern farmers are leading the cider revival; and what we eat at 4 a.m. when we’re happy or sad. (What are we leaving behind? Restaurant openings, celebrity chefs and trendy diets, so-called superfoods and theories about silver bullets. There’s enough of that out there already.)