A breakfast manifesto
How do “luxury-budget” hotels manage to ruin breakfast? How can, sometimes, a coffee and a…
A case for decay
And against zombie food When I was in the first year of my food science…
Why do chemists decide what we eat?
Why do we eat petroleum-derived products? Why are chemists making our food so often nowadays?…
A scientific argument for imperfect food
From terraced vineyards to permacultures to perfectly imperfect natural colourants There is a quiet (r)evolution…
A case against the global trade: the price of distance
The recent Mercosur–EU trade agreement has been presented to European consumers as a victory for…
The power of “natural” and the politics of vagueness
Few words exert as much gravitational pull on consumers as natural. The term radiates implied…