Archive for January 3, 2009

Waste Not, Want Not, Continued: Food Taboos in American Culture

Jonathan Bloom cares a lot about the food that we leave on our plates, but what about the food that never makes it there in the first place?  The taboo on eating animal organs keeps a lot of very nutritious foodstuffs off the dinner table.  When regular cuts of meat were routinely being shipped overseas [...]

January 3, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Politics  No Comments