“How to fight a food crisis”, an Op-Ed by Frederick Kaufman, Associate Professor of English and Journalism at the College of Staten Island and CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, was published September 21, 2012 in the LA Times.  His new book, Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food, will be published October 2012.
Excerpt:

“The drought that descended on the United States this summer will translate into higher prices for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The inevitability of this scenario introduces an old question that has become new: When weather strikes, what can curb food inflation?” Read more>