Something about the tales of American forefathers’ creativity, courage, and conviction leads me to search for a better use of my free time than the occasional (OK, subscription to) US Weekly.

For the past few months I’ve written a series of articles on this site about the future of food and technology, and the ways mind-blowing tech innovations will change how we eat. I guess everything old is new again, because even a cursory glance at history reveals that mind-blowing tech innovations just changed how we eat—the industrial revolution, home electricity, people flocking to cities rather than agricultural communities, transportation (cars, then planes), and processed foods all seismically altered humans’ eating patterns from the millennia prior.

The past century has been