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Food for Thinkers: Wait, How Many Cooks Spoil the Broth?

Pictory founder Laura Brunow Miner faces her fears by luring 30 foodies out to a ranch in the middle of nowhere.

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Food for Thinkers: Online Advertising, or Where Toaster Strudels and Chez Panisse Meet

Kristen Taylor examines the incongruous side dishes of corporate copywriting that adorn most food blogs.

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Food for Thinkers: What if Your Food Hired an Architect to Redesign Your Kitchen?

Architect Nick Sowers asks why high-end kitchen design relegates food behind smooth, generic, and glossy surfaces.

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Food for Thinkers: The Grand Finale

Recipes for transgenic foods, the ethics of cyborg Jainism, lunar agriculture, and Harry Potter at the farmers' market: food for future thinkers.

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Food for Thinkers: Blame it on the Bouillabaisse

Do writers make the best cooks? Allison Arieff pays homage to two who do.

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Food for Thinkers: Writing About Numbers to Hack the Food System

Food + Tech Connect's Danielle Gould finds that writing is her most important tool to build a more transparent, data-driven food system.

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Food for Thinkers: Panic In Aisle Five

Feedlots and chicken fried steak: James Reeves on the moral grey zone at the heart of his relationship with food.

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Food for Thinkers: Ideas in Writing

On their blog, Ideas in Food, Aki Kamozawa and Alex Talbot are writing in the pursuit of extreme culinary rigor.

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Food for Thinkers: Traces of the Future

From dried fish bones in Qatar and early descriptions of the tomato in English cookbooks to the difficulty of reconstructing historical kitchens.

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Food for Thinkers: Medieval Soldiers and Modern Stunting

Jeremy Cherfas explores the relationship between the remarkable history of human stunting and the future of genetically engineered biofortified crops.

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Food for Thinkers: When Music Writers Grow Up, They Become Food Writers

Food writing relies on sensory overload, music writing on linguistic agility, but both, Drew Tewskbury explains, communicate the invisible.

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Food for Thinkers: Journalism at its Best

Paula Crossfield's compelling vision of a food journalism that can bring farmers and eaters together to share what does work and fix what doesn't.

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Food for Thinkers: Shooting Sustainably Sourced Fish in a Barrel

Lisa Bramen has some fun asking whether contemporary food fetishization has "Gone Too Far."

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Food for Thinkers: Ask Not Why I Write About Food; Rather Ask Why You Don't

Jonah Campbell resents any attempt to justify writing about food. And he doesn't like the term "foodie" either.

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Food for Thinkers: Food Writing in the Age of the Internet

Annie Wang of Frites and Fries wonder what a food writer is to do, now that the internet has turned everyone into an expert?