Heroes of 2020: Jacques Pépin’s Eggs
Mother Jones illustration; Prensa Internacional/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.One morning when the pandemic was a few months old, a roommate walked past me as I was cooking breakfast. He then turned around, confused. “Are you making fucking deviled…
“I Never Thought I’d Be Standing in One of Those Lines”: Stories From People Seeking Food Aid
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On the corner of her block in Queens, New York, Calli Carvajal, an out-of-work hair stylist, watched the line at a food pantry grow. This was back around March, at the…
Guest Farm Workers Died of COVID in Obscurity While Trump Planned to Freeze Their Wages
A Honduran migrant worker harvests apples in Aspers, Pennsylvania. August 15, 2019. Lance Cheung/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Two fathers and their sons traveled from Mexico this spring to grow and harvest North Carolina’s sweet…
How I Cooked My Way Through a Terrible, Very Bad Year
Mother Jones illustration Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Cooking helps keep me sane, so the lockdowns and restaurant closures of early spring didn’t shake up my food routine that much. Like millions of others, my household…
Biden Picks Stale White Bread to Lead the USDA
Tom Vilsack speaks at a DuPont facility in Iowa, 2013. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.For much of his latest presidential bid, Joe Biden ran as a restorationist: a figure who would vanquish…
Will Biden Pick a USDA Secretary Who Sees Our Food Crises Clearly?
Joe Biden campaigns in Iowa, June 2019.Matthew Putney/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The next secretary of the US Department of Agriculture will confront two of the most dire problems facing the nation: spiking levels…