I’m giving the opening keynote at the Maine Grain Alliance’s 2025 Kneading Conference, which culimiantes in the Maine Artisan Bread Fair on July 26. My talk is at 8:30 a.m. at the Strand Cinema in Skowhegan, Maine. I’m really looking forward to this one.
by Marion Nestle
Jun
9
2011
“A plate? For food? Americans don’t use plates.”
I know I said I was done with USDA’s MyPlate, but some of the later commentary is not to be missed.
Steven Colbert, for example, has an interesting take on it (that’s his quote):
And so does the pseudonymous “Ruth Bourdain” (no, I have no idea who she or he might be, but I wish I did):
There. That looks better.