This book starts with a quote from Byron’s Don Juan: “Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner”. Visser uses the conceit of an ordinary American dinner to look at the historical, cultural, agricultural, processing and marketing strands of it. In other words it is an anthropology of a meal which consists of: corn on […]
When you start reading this novel you quickly notice that there’s not a lot of punctuation, which is distracting until you get used to it. It’s the voice of the protagonist, Zac, a young man from a ‘shit-kicking suburb’, who is enrolled at Cook School, so that, as a previous offender, he can get work […]
This book is a compilation of chapters written by people involved in local food production in one way or another. Nick Rose asked them to write a chapter about how their interest in the food production business, and how that came about. The main question is why did they write it? Because the food system […]