Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on how we buy convenience and time. Time is a limiting factor for so much that we do. See challenges facing Mexico, here, and the”Municipalities of hope,” https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/16/mexico-coronavirus-municipalities-of-hope
Tag: FoodWISE
FoodWISE, advertising, labels, and the right thing in farming
Gigi reads FoodWISE, on advertising and the WISE acronym, and ask questions about underrepresented farmers and the support they are receiving during the pandemic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/16/cfap-ppp-farmers-coronavirus/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_youngfarmers-1120am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans Who is being left out of coronavirus federal assistance programs, how and why?
FoodWISE, tap water, food habits
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, Our Personal World of Food, and offers this—are food habits really changing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-16/americans-tear-up-old-eating-habits-forcing-farms-to-raze-crops and this—just wear the frickin’ mask! https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/business/farmers-restaurants-closures/index.html
FoodWISE, coffee, tourism, and swine flu
Gigi Berardi reads about advertising and its effects in FoodWISE. Grim report on tourism: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53402983 And here, a quite wonderful precis of news related to the health and safety of workers in meat processing, and “factory farming,” in general. Look up the authors and titles, and subscribe. Animals farmed: China swine flu fears, Nigeria pig…
FoodWISE, advertising, beliefs—things we need to reconsider
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on advertising—all in the section on Our Personal World of Food. I had been meaning to post this New York Times story for awhile. The gist? Are you kidding me? Factory farming? Epochs will note our as the age of animal cruelty, see here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/opinion/sunday/animal-rights-cruelty.html Well, I address it for sure…
FoodWISE and good advertising—wear masks
Gigi Berardi reads about advertising and its influence on us in FoodWISE, then discusses The Seattle Times article here, https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/covid-19-reinvades-states-that-already-beat-it-back-once/, mentioning the decorating of the Seattle space needle, with its big flag, “Mask Up.” Right. States are seeing a resurgence in cases. We are back to where we were in March. It will take months…
FoodWISE, why quality matters, and beliefs about the fall
Gigi Berardi reads on food quality and why it matters in FoodWISE—and reflects on how “why quality matters” can extend to the whole of higher education. Author Masha Gessen writes, quite optimistically, in The New Yorker, most colleges plan on a face-to-face experience in the fall. Maybe. If the colleges let students in on the…
FoodWISE, the taste of real food, and what’s happening with greenhouse gas emissions
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on food quality, and shares the story of her students in Italy, tasting olive oils—preferring a rancid sunflower seed oil (bland in taste) as their favorite “olive oil.” They prefer the mild taste (so do Italian students) of what is labelled “olive oil” in the experiments. Gigi talks about recent taste…
FoodWISE, raisins v. chocolate, and coronavirus pandemic beliefs—how do we change our understanding?
Gigi Berardi reads one of her favorite stories in FoodWISE, “The raisin that wasn’t,” and discusses why and how we believe what we do. Problems arise when we believe that we know everything there is to know, but we are wrong. See also, Coronavirus skeptics, deniers: Why some of us stick to deadly beliefs, at:…
FoodWISE and acknowledging the family editors in my life and the value of “small” in teaching
Gigi takes a break in reading FoodWISE to acknowledge her family—the most clever editors she know, then talks about a clever teaching strategy, using small-group tutorials, as described here, in the university: is small beautiful? She had experience with such when she attended the University of Sussex, and uses much the same in some of…