Scholars of Chinese Buddhism have given much attention to vilified foodstuffs such as meat and pungent vegetables and less attention to celebrated foods. While proscriptions are important for their role in constructing boundaries used in group identification, we should not overlook the celebration of particular foods such as congee (zhōu 粥).

Socioecological models for agriculture provide an opportunity to explore feedbacks, trade-offs, and synergies that can optimize and strengthen emerging connections between farming and society. With the right incentives, innovative research, and political will, a sustainable agriculture is within our reach.

a multicriteria assessment of 24 meat and milk alternatives that integrates nutritional, health, environmental, and cost analyses with a focus on high-income countries.

Our findings suggest that a range of food products exist that when replacing meat and dairy in current diets would have multiple benefits, including reductions in nutritional imbalances, dietary risks and mortality, environmental resource use and pollution, and when choosing unprocessed foods over processed ones also diet costs.

a man must do more than sell roses
where the bums go and beg—
he must keep something holy.

Under pressure, it’s a liquid at room temperature. If I open the valve, it’ll shoot out of this pipe and evaporate very rapidly back to a gas. The cooling effect is quite dramatic.

A brief history and explanation of refrigeration.

83% of Earth’s farmable land is used for livestock; for example as pastures or to farm fodder crops like corn and soy. That’s 26% of Earth’s total land area.

But the real innovation was coming up with a preserved protein. Ancient Egyptians went to war carrying dried fish…

How military needs drive culinary innovation.

To wake when all is possible
before the agitations of the day
have gripped you

To come to the kitchen
and peel a little basketball
for breakfast…

The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred new quality-of-food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks which have become increasingly obscured.

… this paper aims for a philosophically more nuanced discussion of the case for and against eating locally. I assess, in turn, locavore arguments based on environmental preservation, human health, community support, agrarian values and political concerns