Patter Matters — food industry

There is a question worth sitting with. At some point in the last century, the American relationship with food changed fundamentally. Not in the way food culture usually discusses — not in terms of trends or cuisines or dining habits — but in something more basic. The thing most Americans eat most of the time stopped being food in any meaningful sense of the word, and we largely didn't notice. The Transition For most of human history, food was what it was: animals, plants, and the things made from them through cooking. The tools of transformation were heat, salt, fermentation,...