Eat This Newsletter 116 Eat well to do good

• Pro-meat, anti-pro-meat, pro-anti-meat — everybody’s got ties to industry.
• How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots?
• How New York’s Bagel Union Took on the Mob (and, incidentally, ruined bagels).
• Börek has an even longer history than bagels.
• Nature Food launches. I pick at A national approach for transformation of the UK food system and The Londoner’s meal.
• Frieda Kaplan, the Kiwi Queen, died a couple of weeks ago.
• Terrific story on the background of the biggest “organic” scam in American history.
• Obama, source of salted raw mackerel and other delicacies.
• Now that you’ve appropriated kimchee, maybe it is time to do the same for kimjang?

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