Cows Grazing In The Rumpus Room

I'll be starting grad school in August, getting a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Maryland. My focus will revolve around foodways (google it), and while I have not yet collected my thoughts into a cohesive enough pattern to start espousing either serious reports or thoughtful witticisms, here's a link to an article I found totally and completely thrilling today in the NYT.

http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/cows-grazing-in-the-rumpus-room/index.html

Maybe things are turning around. Reclaiming wasted suburban sprawl space and reintroducing agriculture, sustainable development, and natural habitats is... words can't describe how wonderful it is. It's just wonderful. Wonderful wonderful wonderful.

Also interesting is SAGE, Edible Estates, and the growing containers atop apartment buildings. We don't need to let everything be taken away from us, let ourselves be shoved into these atrocious little plastic houses, and call it a day while America loses everything that once made this wildly sprawling country unique. Bring back heterogeneousness. Bring back locational differences, regional foods, culture that's unique and interesting and isn't covered in Targets and Wal-Marts and Cucina Italiano's. I need to stop before I become inane. But read the article. Seriously. It's good.