Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
by Marion Nestle
Oct
19
2023
A feast for the eyes: USDA’s Pomological Collection
I ran across a notice about this video: The USDA’s wondrous fruit watercolors. It’s only 5 minutes and a revelation.
It’s just what we need this week—something lovely at a dark time.
I had never heard of the USDA’s collection of 7500 hand -illustrated fruits and vegetables, most of them contributed by women.
I’m happy to know about them. The illustrations are available online at the National Agricultural Library.
You can search for images here.
They are in the public domain.
Overwhelmed as I am with an overabundance of Concord grapes this year, I searched for them.
They look good enough to eat, no?
This collection is a national treasure and I am thrilled to know about it.
