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Food

Past Editor: Patrick Abatiell

  • Michael Pollan’s Dilemma

    Michael Pollan’s Dilemma

    In the 20th anniversary edition of On Food and Cooking, the celebrated food writer Harold McGee claims that “to understand what’s happening within a food as we cook it, we need to be familiar with the world of invisibly small molecules and their reactions with each other.”1 But why, we might ask? Cooking is cultural as…