Food rules

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Or, “Consume a variety of nutrient-dense foods and beverages within and among the basic food groups while choosing foods that limit the intake of saturated and transfats, cholesterol, added sugars, salt, and...

Edible Cellphones

All images are from Consumables, a project by artist Boo Chapple, with photography by Bo Wong. The other week, Pia Ednie-Brown, editor of the recently released book Plastic Green: Designing Bio-spatial Futures, sent in a copy of Consumables, a pamphlet by artist Boo...

Biology at the Border: An Interview with Alison Bashford

[NOTE: This interview is part of a series of announcements, interviews, updates, and posts related to the “Landscapes of Quarantine” design studio that Edible Geography and BLDGBLOG are co-leading this autumn in NYC. To find earlier Landscapes of...

War on truffles

Truffles, I once read, used to be abundant and cheap enough to appear on almost every page in a cookbook intended for the lower and middle classes. In nineteenth-century France, truffles were regarded as an everyday food, rather than an elusive, expensive, and...

The Last Town on Earth: An Interview with Thomas Mullen

This autumn in New York City, Edible Geography and BLDGBLOG have teamed up to lead an 8-week design studio focusing on the spatial implications of quarantine; you can read more about it here. For our studio participants, we have been assembling a course pack full of...

Pig Futures

2009 has really not been the year of the pig. Despite the best efforts of the USDA and the EU’s Health Commissioner, the first pandemic of the twenty-first century is commonly known as swine flu – a negative association that hasn’t helped pork sales at...