![]() ![]() ![]() Talking about capitalism scares people, but everyone eats. These food problems result directly from capitalist-or, if you prefer, neoliberal-economic and political systems. Just consider how food relates to hunger and chronic disease, environmental pollution, or climate change to systems of agricultural production and distribution to the ways foods are sold, prepared, and consumed or to how societies deal with such matters as immigration, racial and gender discrimination, and incarceration. ![]() I am hard pressed to think of a problem in society that cannot be understood more deeply by examining the role of food. ![]() “Food is about taste and pleasure, but it is also about nutrition, health, community, and culture. Nestle is the pivot point between your grandparents’ copy of “The Joy of Cooking”-a cookbook that I respect and consult-and trenchant twenty-first century culinary analysis: Nestle’s new memoir, “Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics” delineates why her life mattered. The name Marion Nestle (pronounced Nessle) has been known to me, seen in print but left no impression. Special to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger Memoir demonstrates how food dominates life, for better or worse Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics ![]()
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