{"id":3709,"date":"2021-12-15T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/?page_id=3709"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:27:54","slug":"thought-for-food","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/?page_id=3709","title":{"rendered":"About food"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3709\" class=\"elementor elementor-3709\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8380ac6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8380ac6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d3f2149\" data-id=\"d3f2149\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e7ee2e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e7ee2e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/food1-1024x295.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3719\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/food1-1024x295.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/food1-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/food1-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/food1-1536x443.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/food1.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce9d1f5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ce9d1f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Food<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4410342 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4410342\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">All food is plant-based<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-12afc30 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"12afc30\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-396bf6d\" data-id=\"396bf6d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c5134b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c5134b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>For more than a decade, my interest in the food chain has been directed towards finding the common ground on which science and literature meet.&nbsp;<\/strong>This has meant tackling the Himalayas of the English literary canon, and fortunately my sherpas were the best in the business &ndash; Jayne Archer and Richard Marggraf Turley. The story of how this came about and where it&rsquo;s going is told in the blog&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sidthomas.net\/weedblog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Idle Weeds<\/strong><\/a>, and the following publications (links to downloads where available <a href=\"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/?page_id=3417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>):<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c3f124\" data-id=\"0c3f124\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-380ffe6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"380ffe6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Canterbury_Tales.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-362\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Canterbury_Tales.png 331w, https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Canterbury_Tales-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-83d035f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"83d035f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e6e0291\" data-id=\"e6e0291\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0eceacd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0eceacd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>H Thomas, J E Archer. 2021. Chaucer and famine. The Chaucer Encyclopedia (in press)<br>H Thomas. 2019. Grass blindness. Plants, People, Planet DOI: 10.1002\/ppp3.28<br>J E Archer, H Thomas, R Marggraf Turley. 2017. The millers&rsquo; tales: sustainability, the arts, and the watermill. In: Literature and Sustainability. Concept, Text, and Culture (eds A Johns-Putra, J Parham, L Squire) pp 13-32. Manchester: University Press<br>H Thomas, J E Archer, R Marggraf Turley. 2016. Remembering darnel, a forgotten plant of literary, religious, and evolutionary significance. Journal of Ethnobiology 36: 29-44<br>J E Archer, R Marggraf Turley, H Thomas. 2015. &ldquo;Soper at oure aller cost&rdquo;: the politics of food supply in the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer Review&nbsp;50: 1-29<br>J E Archer, R Marggraf Turley, H Thomas. 2015. &ldquo;Moving accidents by flood and field&rdquo;: The arable and tidal worlds of George Eliot&rsquo;s &lsquo;The Mill on the Floss&rsquo;. English Literary History 82: 701-728<br>J E Archer, R Marggraf Turley, H Thomas. 2014. Reading Shakespeare with the grain: sustainability and the hunger business. Green Letters 19: 8-20<br>J Archer, R Marggraf Turley, H Thomas. 2014. Food and the Literary Imagination. London: Palgrave<br>JE Archer, R Marggraf Turley, H Thomas. 2013. Reading with the Grain: Sustainability and the Literary Imagination. INSPIRE-ASLE-UKI Essay Competition Winner<br>H Thomas. 2013. &lsquo;Cultivating Common Ground&rsquo;: a participant&rsquo;s perspective. In: R Crossland. Cultivating common ground: interdisciplinary approaches to biological research. New Phytologist 197: 362-365<br>R Marggraf Turley, JE Archer, H Thomas. 2012. On St Giles Hill. Keats&rsquo;s Ode &lsquo;to Autumn&rsquo; in the Market. Times Literary Supplement No. 5723 (5 December 2012) pp 14-15<br>R Marggraf Turley, H Thomas, JE Archer. 2012. Keats, &lsquo;To Autumn&rsquo;, and the New Men of Winchester. Review of English Studies 63: 797-817<br>JE Archer, H Thomas, R Marggraf Turley. 2012. The Autumn King: remembering the land in King Lear. Shakespeare Quarterly 63: 518-543<br>H Thomas, J Archer, R Marggraf Turley. 2011. Evolution, physiology, and phytochemistry of the psychotoxic arable mimic weed darnel (Lolium temulentum L). Progress in Botany 72: 73-104<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food All food is plant-based For more than a decade, my interest in the food chain has been directed towards finding the common ground on which science and literature meet.&nbsp;This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3709\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}