Eating the Whale
“A personal history of meat.”
How Your Cup of Coffee Is Clearing the Jungle
“However it happened, anywhere between 20,000 and 130,000 people — estimates range wildly — are farming illegally within Bukit Barisan Selatan.”
After Oranges
Fifty years after New Yorker writer John McPhee published his slender study Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story down to Florida to assess the state of American citrus and the peculiar nature of this enduring book.
When the National Bird Is a Burden
The bald eagle has long been a symbol of pride and freedom in the United States. But for one family farm in Georgia, it’s a real nuisance.
A Wild Goose Chase
Most of the foie gras consumed by diners is typically created through the process of gavage—force-feeding geese or ducks. Eater’s Wyatt Williams follows a chicken farmer in Georgia named Brandon Chonko who hopes he can produce “ethical foie gras” to support his family.