A favorite pastime here at LGM is making fun of New York food writing, well New York writing in general but especially food, with its frequent columns of wonder and amazement that other parts of the n
One of the worst things about modern America are ag-gag laws, passed in many states over the past decade to keep undercover animal rights reporters from finding out and publicizing the abuse to animal
It’s time for the annual truth-telling session of Thanksgiving food: It is largely bad. 1) Turkey is an atrocity. I love how every November we see a zillion articles that read “If you do t
Despite my strong opinions about condiments, I am not really a food fundamentalist, at least in terms of what is or is not appropriate about what belongs on a food, with the rare notable exceptions su
I was already blaming ketchup for everything wrong with America, but now here’s some evidence, as we have a Smithsonian piece on how ketchup is emblematic of the entire American industrial food
The Trump-Macron state dinner sounds awful; mostly because of Trump but Macron sucks too (boy, with more political parties this nation could have a choice like France–an awful neoliberal or a fa
Since I am evidently the LGM person designated to write strong opinions about food, I will link to this long defense of Tex-Mex cuisine. It’s a good article as a whole with many solid points, bu
As a casual student of American food faddism, something that is still more than alive and well today (Yes, it’s an amazing coincidence that a sizable percentage of the educated liberal upper mid