Before the Cutting Board

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More money, more problems

The elephant in the voting room

Red lobster

The art of taking a break (and railroads)

Problem swapping vs. problem solving

It's corn! (yet again)

Negotiations galore

A few Inflation Reduction Act takeaways

Short and sweet

Justice delayed

The framing of organic farming

Food vs. fracking, Dutch farmer protests, and the cost of consolidation

Où est passée la moutarde?

'Get big or get out' isn't working

Why rhetoric matters

James Beard nominated reads, combating drought, and 'Shrinkflation'

$2bn in food system funding, the Russian blockade, the first Juneteenth cookbook, and more

Acknowledging collective grief

Calling out slow violence

Food system in retrograde

Thinking past the quick policy fix

The art of preservation

The meat agenda (just kidding, a joke!)

Growing scarcities

Reckoning with trade-offs

Demanding (and deserving) better

The Domino Effect

The many faces of responsibility

Chocolate-covered broccoli, light on the chocolate

What do war and climate change have in common?

Speaking truth to palate

All is fair in food and war

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