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Two Essential Books on Cucina Povera

Learn about how immense poverty changes food in Italy.

Crumbs From the Table

The glue that holds the concept of cucina povera together might very well have to be the crumbs from the dining table of Italy's rural poor.
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Our Daily Bread

Bread is fundamental. The stuff lurking on your supermarket shelf is almost lethal. If you want to be healthy and eat well don't cross mother nature, go with her to the good place.
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Seamus Mullen and the Best Paragraph About Food Ever Written

Author Seamus Mullen doesn't believe in elimination diets. He wants to be inclusive. Good for him.

A Little Fear With Your Food?

What's happened to good food? Industrial crap food factories trick the uninitiated with tricks that make the consumer choose cheap and eat badly.

GMO Labeling and the Monsanto-Owned Senator

Who would anyone on the planet not want GMO foods to be labeled? Labeling is the key to a free market!

Google's Corporate Ready Recipe Search

Remember when corporations were to operate in the public interest? Now they give us cheap crappy food and lies.

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