Table & Foraging
Pancakes Against Pollution, the Apocalypse, What Have You
Buckwheat, Cadmium, and the Legacies of What We Eat
Newsletter
Table & Foraging
France Is Dosing Itself With Cadmium
France’s quiet cadmium crisis — how soil, fertilizer, and old myths are feeding a modern public health issue
culture
The Ground Beneath Your Food
Soil keeps records long after people forget — food, history, and the quiet persistence of systems beneath everyday life.
Table & Foraging
The Onion Beneath the Recipe
On onions, soil memory, and a simple purée you’ll taste differently tomorrow.
Table & Foraging
Heritage Has a Half-Life
How France’s Pure Food Fantasy Was Built on Old Chemistry, Postwar Fixes, and a Nostalgia
Table & Foraging
Ugly Soup You Eat at Home
Potage, root vegetables, and the logic of using what you’ve got.
culture
What Changed While We Weren’t Looking
Notes from western France on false starts, shifting cues, and the land’s quiet reorganization.
Table & Foraging
Rethinking Chard From Wellness Green to White Food
How a familiar word became unfamiliar — and what that says about food, language, and expectations
culture
Why France Can’t Leave Its Landscape Alone
How France learned to love order — and what it’s relearning now
Table & Foraging
The Flavor You Were Supposed to Know
What disappears without noticing, what returns anyway — and why flavor is never just about food.
american living in france
The Hedge Is Not What You Think It Is
What happens when a landscape forgets how to hold life
Table & Foraging
What We Stopped Eating
Or: What We Ate Before Plastic