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...anyway, but not until it had been properly fattened up in the breeding factory where Long, then 12, was required to work in the waning days of China's Cultural Revolution. The ducks were force-fed through a tube operated by a foot-pedal - a single pump per meal. One day Long got careless and accidentally pumped twice. End of duck...
...pick something that had vegetables in it, and somehow provided a complete protein. It may not be the one that I like the most, but a month is a long time and I would like to remain healthy.2. FM: Very practical. But what’s the most popular meal at HUDS?TAM: Probably popcorn chicken or something like that.3. FM: Then why so much squash? And what’s your favorite variety?TAM: I like the Delicata, that’s my favorite variety.* Why so much squash? Well, that’s where we commissioned the forty...
...such an explicitly culinary journey, cultural stories should spring from the food and not the other way around. For instance, it is only once Barlow arrives at the house of Castro’s cousin that he searches for a connection to food. Finding none, other than a modest meal she serves, he rambles instead about Galician migration to Cuba. Barlow doesn’t even attempt to find a porcine connection in his visit with Don Manuel Fraga Iribarne, an eminent Spanish politician. I understand that Fraga is the most famous Galician alive, but if he has nothing...
...appreciation of food,” McCulla admitted. Like us, they emphasize local and seasonal food—most of Japan’s produce is locally grown. Chestnuts, pumpkins, mushrooms and sweet potatoes, in-season treats, regularly adorned every dish. McCulla observed that the students’ meals were balanced and they never left waste on their trays. And call me a cynic, but the pumpkin patch visits that HUDS sponsors don’t make me feel any greater connection to the Harvard student body. Maybe Adams dining hall does makes me feel more connected to the house...
...privilege people will have to give up is the culture of unlimited consumer choice. This doesn’t mean that everyone have to move to hemp farms and clothe children in newspaper diapers. It does, however, mean that people may not be able to eat beef at every meal. It may mean a flight between New York and Los Angeles will become a once-a-decade expense rather than a once-a-week one. It may mean more shopping at the secondhand store. At the heart of this is an epistemological reconfiguring of the current pyramid of economic values?...