In our neighborhood: many signs thanking healthcare workers. This sign is specific: thanking workers at the University of Michigan Hos...

Masked Mona Lisa, Catania, Italy. From The Guardian, "Coronavirus Street Art." ( link ) Photographer: Fabrizio Villa. Los A...

"Yes, we have no bananas" -- perfect for right now! I've heard a lot of complaints of no bananas in stores during the curren...

"In the first half of the nineteenth century, the future of the new nation, it seemed, was in the hands of the women who kneaded its d...

The Pioneers by David McCullough was a pretty good book, but it wasn't what I expected. The title, along with the subtitle "The ...

Reading while locked down in anti-pandemic isolation, I decided to consume some escape fiction, specifically, Absolute Friends by John le...

A very slightly decorated egg, waiting to be eaten. Thinking over what we could eat today, I looked for curry recipes. News to me: curry...

Ann Arbor Farmers Market in better times. Now closed by order of the governor. Economists writing op-eds, government analysts, and news ...

"No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Euro...

The American West was the Promised Land, the land of plenty, the near-mythical dreamland of hungry and ambitious people. Large numbers o...

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Jack Pumpkin, a Valentine heart, a shamrock, and more just appeared on this house in the next block.

Just after lunch today it was time for the Seder in Israel, and by the magic of Zoom, we joined Janet, Ethan, Abigail, and Gabi for the f...

Original cover of How to Cook a Wolf. My kindle edition has several of FIsher's books under the title The Art of Eating . Quite a ...

Semi trucks along the open road. Oklahoma, April, 2011. A vital element in the food supply chain of the US. We all know that supermarke...