Perspective

How the world eats. Or doesn't.

Maybe Obama

doesn't need Alice running to the rescue. 

Is it any easier

if it's food insecurity rather than the H word? (Saw this in the Journal of "lucky duckies," not the NYT.) 

World Food Day

in photos.

Seven

kitchen tables.

"Agro-economics

of the madhouse." But the one glimmer of hope in the horror in Haiti validates his thinking.  

A woman

after my own bleeding heart: "How can I worry about the damned dishes when there are children dying in Vietnam?" 

(The whole album is one of my favorite slices of America.) 

I am the world's

least discriminating consumer of all news food-related. But I tune some crap out for just this reason. 

Connecting the dots

 The only mystery is why our dictator has not suggested raising giant rabbits that eat more than they yield. I would call this an exceptional read, but everything at Tomdispatch qualifies. 

Veg and non-veg

Beggars can be choosers in Mumbai. Fascinating story, but of course I have to quibble. Why is food inevitably described so imprecisely? None of my cookbooks have a recipe for "yellow curried gruel." And can gruel be carnivorous fare?

While Mo-Do still dreams

of riding in the first car in the homecoming parade, serious stuff is being debated. Although I do wish Home Ec could go back to teaching the cash-strapped that beans and cornbread (or beans and tortillas) make a much more nutritious dinner than cereal and toast.