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The joy of the ‘Joy of Cooking,’ circa 1962

By • on October 14, 2006

This posted is rated NV: Not for Vegetarians. A friend in the book-publishing industry was dining at our house last week and rhapsodizing about old Joy of Cooking editions, particularly the illustrations from the '60s. Lo and behold, on my shelf was a 1962 edition my father had given me. The book opens with an epigram from Goethe's Faust: "That which

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Digest: Gene Revolution’s fine print, snacking research, mad deer disease

By • on October 14, 2006

Des Moines Register: An op-ed lauds the Gates Foundation's support of African agriculture as a coming Gene Revolution — saying biotech will be critical to restoring that "blighted land."

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Digest: Hog bust, Fox in the organic henhouse, Mason Q&A

By • on October 6, 2006

The HooK (VA): Cover story about how USDA officials came onto a Christian couple's 153-acre farm in remote Virginia, quarantined it, and killed 79 of their pigs with shotguns because they suspected they had pseudorabies,

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What else we’re reading

By • on August 20, 2006

Toronto Star: A funny semi-review mocking the machismo in Bill Buford's new book Heat. Concludes with some crowd-pleasing points about

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