“It’s hard to think of St. Patrick’s Day without glittered shamrocks, green beer, leprechauns, and of course, corned beef and cabbage. Yet, if you went to Ireland on St. Paddy’s Day, you would not find any of these things except maybe the glittered shamrocks.” Read More: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/03/is-corned-beef-really-irish/
Geography
“A shovel overturned can flip so much more than soil, worms, and weeds. Structural racism – the ways in which social systems and institutions promote and perpetuate the oppression of people of color – manifests at all points in the food system.” Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/uprooting-racism-in-the-f_b_2853804.html