Issue 05 · May 18, 2024

Notes from the grocery aisle

Food literacy in the wild: budgets, labels, preferences, and the dignity of choosing what works.

The grocery aisle is where nutrition advice meets time, money, taste, and the very human fact of being hungry.

A label can answer one question and leave five others untouched. That is not failure; it is simply the shape of a label.

I am interested in choices that make a meal possible, pleasant, and repeatable.