In Feed the People! @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I make a similar point: there is a vast gulf between food availability (is there food?) and food access (are there resources to get food?) and utilization (is food made nutritious?). The food desert idea - especially applied to cities - conflates these.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

"There is little evidence to support the idea that bringing supermarkets to neighborhoods that lack them has a measurable effect on what residents eat."

It is now official: Beginning in September, I will be an Associate Professor of History and of the College at the University of Chicago. Duke has been an amazing home for 15 years, but new adventures await.

Please do not rely on ai tools for food safety advice

I personally think it’s a bit weird that the Epstein suicide note is written in Trump’s twitter voice

This week in P-hacking

CNN@cnn.com · 3mo ago

Increasing your daily consumption of ultraprocessed foods by 10% — basically the equivalent of a small bag of potato chips — may raise your risk of dementia even if you normally eat a healthy plant-rich diet, according to a new study. https://cnn.it/4n0zNR6

New book day with @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social, @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, and Bill Watterson (assuming Bill isn't on here for obvious reasons).

This was fun! We had a wide-ranging and engaging debate over the course of an hour, distilled here into 13 minutes. I got to unleash my “spirits are UPFs!” line to thrilling and devastating effect. I think we may have convinced a very skeptical Kimball on a few but not all fronts.

Jan Dutkiewicz@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gabriel and I went into the belly of the foodie beast: Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio podcast. We talked Feed the People, food processing, and school lunches. I'd like to think we made a compelling case and even found some common ground. Have a listen. www.177milkstreet.com/radio/stop-h...

Gabriel and I went into the belly of the foodie beast: Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio podcast. We talked Feed the People, food processing, and school lunches. I'd like to think we made a compelling case and even found some common ground. Have a listen. www.177milkstreet.com/radio/stop-h...

Stop Hating Processed Foods? The Case for Big Ag | Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street | Recipes, TV and Cooking Tips

This week, a food fight: authors Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg present their case for…embracing McDonalds and Burger King?

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“A worthwhile corrective to a great deal of wrongheaded popular dogma about food.” Read the latest review of “Feed the People!” by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Feed the People!’ Review: In Praise of the Supermarket

Eating locally grown meat and vegetables is a nice aspiration, but it’s no way to get a satisfying meal in the winter.

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"Feed the People! is a worthwhile corrective to a great deal of wrongheaded popular dogma about food." Grateful for this generous - if not entirely uncritical - review in the Wall Street Journal today. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Feed the People!’ Review: In Praise of the Supermarket

Eating locally grown meat and vegetables is a nice aspiration, but it’s no way to get a satisfying meal in the winter.

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I'm so excited for Friday. I'm co-hosting an event with WXDU, our student-run radio station, and some other veteran DJs to teach aspiring undergrads how to do the basics of continuous live-set DJing. It's one of those things I do at the university that has zero CV value but is personally invaluable.

I just walked into a closed (glass) door at my favorite coffee shop, spilling coffee everywhere and smashing my head. This is among the most viscerally embarrassing things to happen to me in recent memory, but it's okay because "only cool guys do this," as my fav barrissta put it.

Something I wish these silly pieces would mention is that modern "live off the land" homesteading only rarely works now because of how marginal it is. If 350 million decided to "live off the land," it would be a disaster for everyone, including these people. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

These Homesteaders Live Off the Land (and Prep for the End of the World)

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A long, thoughtful review of Feed the People! "At its core, the authors’ pitch comes down to access and sustainability: making sure people can afford better-quality food and that we don’t destroy the planet and the lives of workers along the way." newrepublic.com/article/2084...

Are Big Companies, Not Locavorism, the Best Hope for American Food?

Small, local growers have long been hailed as the way to improve food. But large companies have the scale to make a bigger impact.

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New legislation proposed in California would certify foods as not being ultra-processed. It's a bad idea. We should be using the regulatory state to improve diets, but by focusing on the specifics of nutrition and not on broad generalizations. My latest for TNR. newrepublic.com/article/2086...

People Love to Blame “Ultra-Processed Food.” It’s Unhelpful.

A new bill proposed in California misses the point: The reason not to eat junk food has more to do with what’s in it than how processed it is.

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I got this new shtick for talks where I take a big swig of Diet Cherry Coke and then say I grabbed the cherry because I've been trying to eat more fruits and vegetables.

The problem with conceptually counterposing the cold efficiency of conventional agriculture and staple crop production to feel-good initiatives like community and backyard veggie gardens is that you're dealing with completely incommensurable scales of production. The former is what feeds us.

Jan Dutkiewicz@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'll just add that for as long as I have been around food scholarship, there are those who criticize or hand-wave away scale. I think scale matters the most, pragmatically. One example: NYC serves 900,000 school lunches every day. Where does the food come from? Could it ever come from "small farms"?

Both honored and insulted to be referred to as a vegan Earl Butz in the LARB review of Feed the People! This is the sort of engaged pushback from left-small-food circles I expected when we wrote the book, and also the sort of conversations we should be having. lareviewofbooks.org/article/feed...

Consider the Waffle | Los Angeles Review of Books

Are Waffle Houses or garden cities the future of food?

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I wrote about James Talarico's blasphemy against meat and barbeque revival on the Texas campaign trail. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

What the James Talarico Vegan Story Reveals About U.S. Politics

Centuries ago, Thomas Paine envisioned a country free of arbitrary rule—both from monarchy and religion. Today, both religious and secular dogma still curtail what can be said on the campaign trail.

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Gramps on one side ran a liquor store. Gramps on the other side was a vagabond and rambler and was never able to keep down a regular job.

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Whether or not you’re running for Congress and trying to seem rugged (and you probably should run, because, look who’s out there) what did your grandpas do for a living?

Blew off some steam today by doing a 60kg Turkish Getup. This is the way.

Read @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's new piece about the writing process and why a vignette about mid-rave ice cream at Berghain almost made it into Feed the People! Stay for the "regenerative" ag hack actually selling million dollar homes. bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-cuttin...

The Cutting Room Floor

Not Everything You Wrote That You Love Survives

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Big belated congrats to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social on FEED THE PEOPLE! a book that everyone should read and will get a lot out of. It might surprise you to know that they call for throwing away the "broken food system" cliché but they have a GOOD POINT!

Reading about how a more equitable food system is possible. Nice work @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco

The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

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San Francisco! Gabriel and I are giving a book talk tomorrow night at USF at 6 p.m. This event is open to the public! Come by.

New York City! This Wednesday, Feb. 25, I'll be doing a book talk at Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn (Atlantic Ave.) at 6 p.m. Come by! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Are industrial foods really the problem? Writing in The New York Times, Senior Research Fellow Gabriel N. Rosenberg argues with Jan Dutkiewicz that rather than idealizing the past, policy and technology should come into play to improve today’s food systems. 🥯 🍇 🔗 buff.ly/WEU1bc1

Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents

They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February.

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newrepublic.com/article/2067...

What the Foodies Get Wrong About Food Reform

Telling people to eat more home-cooked meals and start gardening isn’t a realistic prescription for widespread change.

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One of my favorite grafs in the book which has a line that has consistently cracked up every editor who has read it! (What say you, Heather?)

Heather Souvaine Horn@hsouvainehorn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What is "democratic hedonism"? What does it mean in the food reform context? An excerpt from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social's and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's new book: newrepublic.com/article/2067...