The History Of A&P And The Importance Of Scale To American Prosperity:
Marc Levinson To Present At The New York Produce Show And Conference
Each year at The New York Produce Show and Conference, we take pride in showcasing authors doing important work. Last year we featured Joan Nathan and, here at the Pundit, we provided a “sneak preview” of her presentation last year in a piece we titled, Famed Food Writer Joan Nathan To Speak At New York Produce Show And Conference. […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Contrary To What You May Have Read: “Using wood signals the marketplace to grow more trees.”
Our recent article, Department Of Sloppy Thinking: “Save a Tree” Environmentalism Doesn’t Make Much Sense, pointed out the logical flaw in thinking that there would be more trees in the world if we would only stop using paper products. We received a few notes on the subject. One came from a new Pundit contributor who […]
CANTALOUPE CRISIS ANALYSIS:
Key Performance Indicators and Food Safety…
Shall The Twain Ever Meet?
Our piece, The Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name: The Priority Can Be Safe or The Priority Can Be Local, But It Cannot Be Both, attracted many comments. This one came from one of the most prominent food safety experts in the industry: It is hard for me to measure the depth of our […]
One Walmart Shopper Stands Up For Civil Order And Gets Robbers Arrested, But She Could Have Gotten Herself Or Another Person Killed
Showing that Providence has a sense of humor, a Houston woman by the name of Lawless — Monique Lawless to be exact — decided she could not abide the break down in civil order represented by thieves getting away from a Walmart store in broad daylight. When the cashier didn’t act, Ms. Lawless asked her […]
THE CANTALOUPE CRISIS
The Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name:
The Priority Can Be Safe or The Priority Can Be Local, But It Cannot Be Both
It is, of course, horribly sad that 18 people have died in the Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Whole Cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, Colorado. The government is searching hard for a cause, and food safety experts are speculating as to what the issue might be. Water, soil, animals and people are all being looked […]
Looking For Clarity On Immigration Policy
The situation regarding E-Verify has put the industry between a rock and hard place. The industry is dependent on undocumented laborers on the production end. The restaurant industry, an important customer, also depends on undocumented labor. Requiring that all employees be vetted through the E-verify system would thus leave the trade without sufficient workers to get […]
What’s In A Name? Professor Brad Rickard Of Cornell Produces New Research That Indicates Shakespeare May Have Been In Error… On Apples At Least
From Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: JULIET: ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a […]
Department Of Sloppy Thinking:
“Save a Tree” Environmentalism Doesn’t Make Much Sense
There are a lot of problems in the country and the world. We tend to focus on the proximate cause of these problems such as dysfunction in Washington. Yet, we would say that to a surprising extent our problems are caused or exacerbated by a facile way of thinking that makes many people believe things […]
Pundit’s Mailbag – Who Should Pay When Bananas Are The Focus Of A Store’s Promotional Effort?
Our piece, Memo to Supermarket CEOS, Don’t Kill The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg… Overpricing All Produce Items To Support Cheap Banana Prices Is A Distaster Waiting To Happen, brought several replies including this: Supermarkets have been doing this forever. Who do you think suffers when the produce department needs to make up for […]
Ideation Fresh Foodservice Forum Unveiled:
New Conference Will Tackle MyPlate Challenge At New York Produce Show
Ideation is all about the birth of new ideas. It is a crucial process for individuals, companies, industries, indeed all human advancement. If you stare long enough at the word, you realize that “eat” is right at the heart of it. So the concept of ideation was a natural to place at the center of […]
