Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook exposes the “human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry” in this compelling account. I picked up Tomatoland thinking it to be simply a book about the industrialisation of a favourite food, but it is much, much more and provides a graphic account of the politics of [...]
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Tomatoland – how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit
Tagged exploitation, Florida, fungicide, industrial agriculture, insecticide, pesticide, slavery, tomato
Posted by pundles on 16 January 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/01/16/tomatoland-how-modern-industrial-agriculture-destroyed-our-most-alluring-fruit/
Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb – an amazing local product with a fascinating history
The Yorkshire rhubarb season is now in full swing but it was in the late 19th century when forced rhubarb first took off with zeal in what became known as The Rhubarb Triangle – draw a line from Bradford to Wakefield to Leeds and back and you have the location of an important part of [...]
Tagged Ark of Taste, artisan food, Christmas, food communities, micro climate, PDO, rhubarb, Slow Food, Yorkshire
Posted by pundles on 8 January 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/01/08/yorkshire-forced-rhubarb-an-amazing-local-product-with-a-fascinating-history/
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