At one AM (apparently in search of lost praise), I found the best book review I ever received. I first signed a book contract with New Republic Books in 1975 promising to deliver in less than a year. It was to be my first published book–as it turned out it was my third. My agent […]
The Politics of Food by Joel Solkoff
How rice is planted in the United States
Consider…the technology involved in planting rice in southwest Louisiana. It was morning at the Jennings Municipal Airport in Jefferson Davis Parish, which is part of the seventh congressional district, the largest rice-producing district in the country. A group of men talked about the previous night’s tornadoes and hauled hundred-pound sacks of seed rice from the […]