You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.- Michael Pollan
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I am writing about.
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that is going wrong in society.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
