War and its absurdities
When Nadja was evacuated from the bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, she took her cheese with her. She took the […]
Global health meets sugar capitalism
Cal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in
Trust the organic?!
This short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of
“Is it really organic?”
Spurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself,
Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain
Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain.
Tasting Qualities
How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one
Tasting Qualities
Sarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes
Tasting Qualities
As I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in
Meat Planet
If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which
If Meat Could Tell Stories: A Tale of Assam during Coronavirus
I can smell it, someone is cooking chicken, I screamed and ran to my sister. I think it is the