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Superfood? 18 January 2007 4:52 pm

Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,Derrick Jelliffe,eating,hungry planet,identity,Michael Pollan,vocabulary,Warren Belasco , add a comment

One concept that really stuck with me from my food and culture anthropology class last term is the idea of a “superfood”, which comes from a hierarchical food classification system described by Derrick B. Jelliffe. I’m bringing it up now because it was important to my thinking about my Hungry Tracy project. (more…)

Eating is an agricultural act… 16 January 2007 9:07 pm

Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,books,environment,school,sustainability,Warren Belasco,WFFC , add a comment

…or so Wendell Berry would have us believe. I’ve never actually read any Wendell Berry, but that’s about to change. Today I signed up for Sustainable Agriculture, an environmental studies class at the University of Oregon. (more…)