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Soy Sauce in the Baby Bottle
Dashi, blue foods, and the power of umami to make sustainability a selfish choice.
11 hrs ago • Mike Lee
What Andy Warhol Taught Me About Food Innovation
And it has almost nothing to do with Campbell’s soup.
Jun 2 • Mike Lee

May 2026

We Can’t Save the Soil With Dinner Alone
Food, fashion, and beauty all come from soil. We need them to talk more.
May 26 • Mike Lee
Make It Possible
What modern life makes hard about choosing better food
May 19 • Mike Lee
Economic Law is Not Natural Law
We wrote the rules of profit. We can rewrite them.
May 12 • Mike Lee
A New Blueprint for Big Food
Stop fighting the profit motive. Redirect it.
May 5 • Mike Lee

April 2026

The Enshittification of Big Food
A digital-economy idea explains why the food on your shelf keeps getting worse
Apr 28 • Mike Lee
Antifragile by Design
The food system works exactly as designed, but it's the design that's the problem.
Apr 21
Fragile by Design
The food system was built with chokepoints. So was almost everything else.
Apr 14 • Mike Lee
Digital Leverage
On vibecoding, Billie Eilish, and food's DIY software opportunity
Apr 7 • Mike Lee

March 2026

On Glyphosate
The most used herbicide in history might be killing us. Banning it might be worse.
Mar 31 • Mike Lee
The Human Cost of What You Eat
We know everything about the food. We know almost nothing about the people who made it.
Mar 24 • Mike Lee
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