Tilefish and Jello Salad for Family and Nation
When the National Canners Association and the US Bureau of Fisheries write the recipes, Americans learn to serve Jello Salad and Tilefish for dinner.
Category: Fieldnotes
Natural Food to Eat When Changing the World
Two recipes drawn from research reveal how cookbook authors believed natural food had the ability to withstand physical, moral, and social degradation.
What is Food Studies?
Stressing intimacy, structures of power, social justice, and action, food studies is giving interdisciplinarity a good name.
The Making of ‘Pure Michigan’
Generations of tourists, advertisers, government groups, and environmentalists transformed the Machilimackinac into ‘Pure Michigan.’
Building an Arctic Atlas
A team from Audubon Alaska designs ecological maps to make us rethink our place in the arctic.
Postcards from the Field
Ghost towns, cougar encounters, and a rock band’s tour across Europe. How five graduate students spent the summer.
How Activists Are Taking on Factory Farms
Activists gather at a summit over factory farm expansion, offering an economic vision based on the value of clean water.
Finding Longleaf Pine in American History
Longleaf pine once covered 90 million acres in the southeastern U.S. What came after the felling of trees mattered to both people and the environment.
Talking Transformation in Beijing
A conference in China brings graduate students from around the world together to discuss environmental transformation.
Same Place, Different Photograph
Repeat photography is used by a range of scientists and artists as a form of data collection, but also raises deeper questions about the nature of truth.
