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Taxi Driver Syndrome

Behind-the-scenes immigration changes are creating new problems on top of old ones

Jeffrey G. Reitz

Liberal Interpretations

Making sense of Justin Trudeau and his party

Curtis Gillespie

The Empathy Paradox: What #MeToo Misses

What even a post-Weinstein conversation is not saying about sexual assault

Carly Lewis
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Sarah E. Tracy

Sarah E. Tracy is working on Delicious, a forthcoming history of MSG and umami.

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Sarah E. Tracy

The Mess

Deconstructing the institutional food menu September 2020
I met the chef Joshna Maharaj in September 2012. It was a team-building exercise: a day-long retreat to the University of Toronto’s Hart House Farm in Caledon. We were researchers gathered for the start of a fellowship year, and we were there to think about food. Maharaj was there to help us make some. Her…

Fake and Forgotten Foods

Satiating our ceaseless hunger for authenticity January | February 2020
The future is on our minds. And the future seems fraught. Lenore Newman’s Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food and Benjamin R. Cohen’s Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food bookend a growing anxiety about eating while modern: What do we really know about what we…