This is the year to de-center your smartphone
For the sake of yourself and your country, it is time to get off your phone.
Yes, I know you needed to see the latest inquiries into January 6th, the most recent QAnon theories, the debunking of those theories and then the debunking of the debunking. Then perhaps you’ll want…
How hard can it be to get a local dinner from American seas?
My New England seafood supper is lost over Tennessee.
Two dozen herring, 20 pounds of squid, and a bushel of blue mussels are circling in a thunderstorm over FedEx’s hub in Memphis. If the FedEx pilots manage to land, all that seafood just might make a northbound connecting flight back…
More than 80% of our seafood is imported. That’s a problem.
Here’s a crazy statistic: the U.S. controls more ocean than any country on Earth, and yet more than 80% of our seafood is imported. Here’s another one: America’s favorite fish, salmon, comes to us largely in farmed form from other countries. Meanwhile the U.S. catches way more wild salmon than…
They’re not pretty, but they might help you go easier on the ocean
There are eight words that make a food writer tremble. They are spoken a little while after the writer has taken a seat in a restaurant far beyond his means. He peruses the menu and, hoping for an early night, picks out something light and simple. …
Grapes do remarkably well downtown
For the last 16 years I have maintained a garden at New York’s Ground Zero, a stone’s throw from where the World Trade Center once stood. It has been an arduous sometimes amusing, always frustrating process. On this 20th anniversary of 9/11 I’ve written a couple of pieces about it…
It’s time to clarify this most misleading of food labels
For anyone with a deep, enduring faith in the meaning of nature, it may come as something of a shock to learn that the word “natural” means nothing at all — at least when it comes to the business of marketing processed food. Every year, U.S. corporations sell tens of…
A broken heart, a broken country, a big fish
September 12, 2001. Newly single and pushing 35. A love affair and the World Trade Center, both destroyed in a single month. I could barely distinguish one loss from the other. I could not get a particular Paul Simon lyric out of my head:
“Losing love is like a window…
After multiple scandals the legendary author is leaving the troubled social network but his trail of historic posts remains
July 8th, 1847: Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy joined Facebook.
Turgenev wrote on Tolstoy’s wall: Welcome Count! What made you break down after all the monde of belles lettres has already come and gone across these pages?
Tolstoy commented on Turgenev’s comment: Schopenhauer joined.
Turgenev sent Tolstoy a personal message: A…
Hurricane Henri, oysters and the future of our coasts
DOWN here at the end of Manhattan, on the border between evacuation zones B and C, I’m prepared, mostly. My bathtub is full of water, as is every container I own. …
Omega-3s, Omega-6s and the battle for the health of our planet
This spring, two striking things happened in the United States: one on land, the other at sea.
On land, farmers planted almost 87 million acres of soy and over 92 million acres of corn. That new production was supported by a record $46 billion in farm subsidies that covered everything…
Paul Greenberg
New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet: Fifty Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint paulgreenberg.org
