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Faddy Food in the U.S.A.: Riddhi Shah, “Why Is America So Fixed on Food Fads?”

Summer has arrived, and the produce aisles and farmers’ markets are brimming with fresh items. Is there anything new and different where you shop or dine? Have you tried a taste? New York-based author Riddhi Shah writes about food-related issues for Salon, The Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and other periodicals. In this 2010 Slate article, she looks at what she calls “faddy foods.”

Read it here: Shah, "Why is America so fixed on food fads?"

 

Greener Grass, More Paid Holidays: Katha Pollitt, "It's better over there"

How would you like to have 27 paid holidays every year along with six weeks’ paid vacation? What changes would you be willing to make in your life in order to enjoy such benefits? Social commentator and poet Katha Pollitt sets her insightful gaze to Europe in this essay that appeared in September 2010 in The Nation, a non-partisan weekly magazine of social and political criticism.

Read it here: Pollitt, "It's Better Over There"

Shopping with Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt on WalMart

Do you shop for the lowest prices on the items you buy? What do your shopping habits have to do with the statue of a former first lady in a New York City park? This May 2011 article from the blog Manhattan User’s Guide (MUG) focuses on a monument to Eleanor Roosevelt in Manhattan and projects the voice of Mrs. Roosevelt into a current local debate—whether Walmart should open stores in New York City.

Read it here: MUG "On pins and needles" 5.17.2011