Culture
A better grape stuck in Purgatory

The loop hybrids find tough to break

Chase Purdy · 8 min read · Jun 29
Hybrids in Paris, one year later

This is how a quiet revolution ends.

Chase Purdy · 6 min read · Jun 15
Meet Europe’s bread belts

What 671 jars of starter teach us about the EU

Chase Purdy · 6 min read · May 29
One chart, five countries. The PIWI landscape in Europe

A chart says 1,000 words

Chase Purdy · 6 min read · Apr 16
Wine’s long hierarchy is starting to crack

Meet the vines that don't need saving

Chase Purdy · 13 min read · Apr 2
The ‘blue laws’ are receding. The anxiety that created them isn’t

Your $14 mocktail has a longer history than you think

Chase Purdy · 11 min read · Apr 2
Have we entered a new era of fine dining?

Meet "Post-Digital Integrative Cuisine"

Chase Purdy · 9 min read · Mar 29
The unhelpful theatre of OnlyFarms.gov

The Trump administration named an agriculture website after OnlyFans

Chase Purdy · 5 min read · Mar 29
America got older. The food industry didn’t notice.

The food industry is built for a shrinking demographic.

Chase Purdy · 5 min read · Mar 23
What thirty years of failure taught Nicholas Longworth

How a 19th-Century American vintner discovered the limits of European wine grapes

Chase Purdy · 8 min read · Dec 29