Did you know that the coconut is one of the only seafaring, self-propagating crops? Or that most of the world’s olive oils are produced in Spain, but end up blended, imported then exported, far from their country of origin? How about the fact that organized crime infiltrated the Italian food system for decades? Climate, locality and even human welfare by way of Fairtrade have all seeped into the consciousness of many well informed and capable shoppers. But, when it comes to the complexities of the commodification of our food, what facts do we consider when we grocery shop? We explore on this episode of Point of Origin from Whetstone Magazine.
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Introducing the Whetstone Radio Collective
Food Apartheid: (And Why We Don't Call it a Food Desert)
The Morality of Meat
Black Coffee
Beyond the Wheat
What Do We Mean When We Say Food Anthropology?
Spoiled Milk
Green Gold: Avocado Farming in Mexico
Wine of Volcano and Sea
Fulani Foodways with Chef Binta
Reviving Arak in Palestine
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Indigenous Foodways: The Decolonized Diet
A New, New Nordic?
Third Culture
One-on-One with Reem Assil
Natural Wine: Part 2
Natural Wine: It’s Alive!
Korean Food and Modernity
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