![]() ![]() The home kitchen, once a festive leisurely place awaft with garlic and onion, amply provisioned with cocktails préparatoire and alive with bodies playfully bumping to the music as a white-wine reduction slowly thickens, has been breached at last, its pass-through set ablaze, its larders leveled by the brutish meat-headedness of the “food economy” and its vulnerable systems of transport. She’s been delivered of microwaveable chicken alfredo and frozen pizzas and the plastic packaging it comes in. ![]() The Trojan mare has spilled out all the chain restaurants and fast food secreted within her. Perhaps you amuse yourself by imagining that the Ilium of good eating and drinking, long under siege, has finally fallen. If this whets your appetite, you can subscribe to the journal subscribe by Monday May 8th to receive a copy of this issue in your mailbox. The Table of Contents can be viewed here. Below, you can read the editor’s prefatory letter. A new issue of Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic is heading to the printer. ![]()
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