NYU’s Institute of Public Knowledge is hosting the launch of Practicing Food Studies, edited by Amy Bentley, Fabio Parasecoli, and Krishnendu Ray. I wrote the Foreword. We will all provide brief perspectives on our quarter century of teaching food studies. For information and registration, click here. For 30% off on the book, click here.
by Marion Nestle
Nov
19
2008
Eating Liberally: melamine again
Kat’s question for me is “Shouldn’t the FDA keep melamine out of our domestic food chain?” Well yes. It should. And thanks to Sokie Lee for forwarding the Mao poster from her “say no to made in China” campaign. Still, I don’t think we should be too xenophobic about China. After all, its food safety system is about where ours was before we got food and drug laws in 1906. It’s just a lot bigger and more complicated so it has even more work to do to keep its – and our – food safe. And here’s Sokie’s poster in miniature: