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Josh Ozersky is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History. You can listen to his weekly show at the Heritage Radio Network and read his column on home cooking at Rachael Ray's website. He is currently at work on a biography of Colonel Sanders...
...Oscar-nominated film Food Inc., Robert Kenner took on the American food industry and revealed how industrial production is making the nation less healthy. With Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser as a co-producer and Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a consultant, Kenner's film takes consumers on a journey from the supermarket aisle to meat-packing plants to Congressional food-safety hearings to demonstrate how a handful of corporations often put profit ahead of consumer health, worker safety and the livelihood of the American farmer. (See a video interview with Michael Pollan...
...race, religion and socioeconomics, with white or non-religious parents being more likely to say they would consider hastening death. "Parents who identified as more religious were less likely to admit they had such thoughts [of hastening death]," says Veronica Dussel, a Dana-Farber research fellow and lead author of the study, which was published on Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. "Parents with higher incomes were more likely to say they...
...difficult nature of his material, Rash’s writing remains abrupt and poignant. His prose is condensed and powerful, relaying a host of information and feeling in a limited space. His narrators are varied, ranging from engineers to construction workers, and he showcases his abilities as an author by adeptly assuming new voices every time. The vernacular of each of his characters adds personality to each story, while Rash’s intimate knowledge of the land and the people who live there adds depth and clarity to his work...
...medicate with alcohol and analgesics, their compulsion not dissimilar to the reason for Sylvie’s own addiction. Like the ill-fated Erysicthon, they devour themselves, and yet for all their indulgence in masochistic punishment, they cannot wrench free from the consequences of their war-torn pasts. The author of three previous novels centered on the immigrant experience, Lee is still preoccupied with tropes of alienation, estrangement, and a loss of identity. “The Surrendered” simply concerns emigrants of time rather than location...