The Considered Table

A blog about food and society

by Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas

The Free Market and Food Security

The mid-1500s were a time of confidence, of hope that minds like Leonard da Vinci's would deliver brilliant technologies to create a society independent of divine whim or environmental caprice. But then, at the birth of the modern world, something went wrong with the food system. Read More

The problem of food and the free market

When the leaders of the G8 sit down to dinner in Muskoka this week, it will be to a menu largely composed of local, Ontario produce, Canadian beef and trout pulled from the waters Georgian Bay. While no doubt delicious, it's ironic that they'll be eating food that's produced within driving distance of their resort's golf course. Read More

The New Gluttony

Unless you've been huddled—-Twinkie-like—in a protective cocoon of your own hydrogenated shortening, you've probably noticed that food isn't what it used to be. Not merely in the sense that our industrial food system is teetering further in the direction of the unwell (for a thorough discussion of this topic, see our book Empires of Food, out now). Read More

The End of Simple Eating

Eating isn't a personal or social act anymore. It's much bigger than that. Read More

The Considered Table Bloggers

Evan D.G. Fraser is an associate professor of geography at the University of Guelph. Co-created with Andrew Rimas, they are the authors of Empires of Food and Beef.

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Andrew Rimas is the managing editor of The Improper Bostonian magazine. Along with Evan D.G. Fraser, they are the authors of Empires of Food and Beef.

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