America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.