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Tag: disaster
The Amatriciana per Amatrice Campaign: Reflections on Food, Solidarity, and the Earthquake in Central Italy
Elisa Ascione and Michael A. Di Giovine In the early hours of August 24, 2016, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked … More
The Flint Water Disaster: A Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial, and Deceit
Gregory V. Button Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in … More
Street, Neighborhood, City in the New New Orleans
David Beriss University of New Orleans When Angelo Brocato’s gelato and pastry shop reopened in September, 2006, it seemed like … More
Diet for a Big Storm: Reflections on Food, Waste and Hurricane Sandy
Diana Mincyte Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow Center for European and Mediterranean Studies New York University One of the most … More
Eating in Times of Financial Crisis
File it under “strange and unusual.” That’s what Reuters did in putting up the photo of one of many Yemeni … More
Seafood Solidarity
Even before I wrote up the restaurant guide for the upcoming AAA meeting in New Orleans, people were asking me … More
City of Gastronomy
The BP Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (named, it seems, for the fictitious town invented by Gabriel Garcia … More
Wheat prices “tumble” — for now?
miles and miles of Washington wheat Last week I reported on the dramatic rise in wheat prices and suggested that … More
Food prices on the rise (again)
Two years after the vicious spike in food prices, global food prices are once again on the rise. Are we … More
