This summer, when you slice up a beautiful, red, heirloom tomato, thank Thomas Jefferson. He pioneered the cultivation of tomatoes. And brought many of Europe’s finest delicacies to America. He [...]
Category: Big Food
Oh soy, oh soy
The traditional use of soy in cooking originated in the heartland of China. From there, it spread throughout East Asia. And then to Southeast Asia and South Asia. Soybeans only arrived in Europe [...]
Don’t be a soy loser
Misconceptions abound when it comes to soy. Is it healthy? Is it dangerous? Are some forms safe? Even so-called health and nutrition experts get it wrong. For example, this week at the grocery [...]
Not the usual baloney
Food marketing is a nasty business. It has very little to do with nutrition. And has everything to do with creating profitable new products geared to their best customers. Who else but a [...]
Food fight
More and more people want to feed their families healthy foods. But as I warned you last month (in the Daily Dispatch “Big Food takes over the organic market”), big business has been years ahead [...]
When “organic” is doubly meaningless
On Wednesday, I told you that “organic” food has become little more than the latest consumer scam (“Big Food takes over the organic market”). With Big Food running the show, the term organic is [...]
Big Food takes over the organic market
Large agricultural and food companies figured out early on that the term “organic” can be thrown around as a marketing slogan. Not to mention a means to charge a hefty premium to consumers [...]