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The Founder's Grocery List (and Why Most Lists Fail)
A grocery list designed for people who don't want to grocery shop. Twenty staples, three rotations, one printable.
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, and Why Sugar Is the First Industrial Food
Sidney Mintz's 1985 book argues that sugar — not corn, not wheat — was the first true industrial food. The argument still holds, and it explains a lot of what's in your kitchen.
Tuna Niçoise Jar — Travel-Proof Lunch
Tinned tuna, hard-boiled egg, green beans, olives, baby potatoes. Goes through an airport security line intact.
Pacific Northwest Indigenous Foodways — Salmon, Camas, Acorn
The Coast Salish, Chinookan, and Sahaptin peoples of the Pacific Northwest built one of the most abundant food economies on the continent. The system was working when settlers arrived.
Marion Nestle's Food Politics — Read This Before Your Next Grocery Run
Marion Nestle's Food Politics (2002, updated 2013) is the standing reference on how the American food industry shapes dietary advice, school lunches, and the supermarket aisle.
Julia Child and the American Kitchen Revolution
Julia Child taught a generation of Americans that French home cooking was within reach. The PBS broadcasts mattered as much as the books.
Tex-Mex — The Cuisine That Is Older Than Texas
Tex-Mex isn't a corruption of Mexican food. It's a 200-year-old border cuisine — Tejano — that predates Texas statehood and deserves to be read on its own terms.
Filipino Food in America — The Big Cuisine That Was Hiding in Plain Sight
Filipinos have been the second-largest Asian American group for decades. The cuisine has been here the whole time. It is only now getting the food-media attention it deserves.
Magnesium Recovery Stir-Fry
Dark leafy greens, pumpkin seeds, and tofu loaded with magnesium — the mineral most depleted by chronic stress.
Michael Pollan and Eating Within Sight of the Field
Michael Pollan's three big food books reframed how a generation of American eaters thought about agriculture. The thesis is simple. The implications are not.
15-Minute Garlic Shrimp Over Greens
Frozen shrimp from the bag, garlic, lemon, a handful of arugula. Dinner before the kettle finishes boiling.
Almond Butter Energy Balls
Almond butter, dates, oats, dark chocolate. Twelve balls, no baking, fifteen minutes.