Food With a Dash of Politics + OZY’s Top 10

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Saturday Nov 02, 2019 1 [Good Sh*t]( [Good Sh*t]( [When Food Gets Political: Delicious Stories of Theft, War, Scandal and Protest]( Sometimes the food on our plates says more than #getinmybelly. These dishes have hidden messages and dark histories — one even ended an empire. The saying goes that the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach. There is truth in this. Food brings a sense of comfort, makes us feel cared about and conjures warm memories of the past. It can be persuasive and intoxicating, and some foods are thought to be aphrodisiacs. And it can bring us joy when eaten in the spirit of worship or celebration. But sometimes food has a different purpose than to deliver happiness or satisfy our hunger. Sometimes what we put in our mouths was once meant to deliver a message or make a statement — a sweet protest covered in icing. Food and drink have even torn civilizations apart, firing up wars and revolutions. Sometimes it all just comes down to shrewdness and, well, money. From a sweet cookie with a sharp message to a dessert linked to Nixon, and from a chocolate drink that ended an empire to a theft that created a tea empire, these sumptuous stories will fill your plate — and perhaps touch your heart — with political food. [READ MORE]( 2 [Good Sh*t]( [Good Sh*t]( [Solidarity Fridges: How French Firms Feed Their Neighbors for Free]( Les Frigos Solidaires found a way to cut food waste and hunger at once. If you’re hungry and broke in the 18th arrondissement in Paris, you might want to stop by La Cantine du 18, tucked behind the Sacré-Coeur. Not to buy yourself lunch — you’re broke, remember? — but to partake of the restaurant’s Solidarity Fridge. It’s a simple system: Businesses and community members with packaged food they can’t use and that would otherwise go to waste put it into the fridge. People who can’t afford to buy food are welcome to take some and eat it. France has been on the [warpath against food waste]( in recent years: It was the first country to ban supermarkets from just [throwing away unused food](. As of 2017, French people waste an estimated 233 pounds of food per person per year. In the U.S., that number is 612 pounds per person. Dozens of people come visit the fridge at La Cantine daily. [READ MORE]( 3 [Flashback]( [Flashback]( [Everyone Screams for Ice Cream. Even the Incarcerated]( The battle over ice cream behind bars has been raging in the U.S. for at least a century. In 1915, H.O. Fishback, a county commissioner in Washington state, refused to pay $1.75 to provide ice cream to inmates at the county jail. “Ice cream is a little too good for prisoners,” he said, suggesting that if they needed a treat, pies should be provided instead. “And thus another question in the prison reform movement is introduced,” reported the Ice Cream Trade Journal. For as long as there have been prisons, the amenities offered to inmates have varied greatly. In general, the more rehabilitative-minded the place, the better the food. In 1871, Col. Lawrence Shuler fed inmates at Indiana State Prison a diet of turkey, [ice cream](, oysters and cake at a cost of 14 cents per inmate per day. Not only was this far cheaper than most prison food at the time, but the prison’s inmates were considered some of the most cheerful and productive in America. [READ MORE]( 4 [Good Sh*t]( [Our 10 Must-Read Stories — the OZY Highlight Reel]( From a marathon super-mentor to climate-clever cats, here’s the best of OZY this week. 5 [The Huddle]( [The Coach Behind Many of the World’s Greatest Runners]( Haji Adilo and his brothers are the coaching minds behind the runners to watch at the New York City marathon. 6 [Fast Forward]( [Climate Change Is Wearing Donors Down]( As extreme weather events batter nations with growing frequency, donor fatigue is leaving the communities most vulnerable to climate change in even greater danger. 7 [Good Sh*t]( [The Unlikely Home of a Thriving Serval Population]( These near-threatened cats found a way to survive at the world’s largest coal liquefaction plant. 8 [Opinion]( [For Millions of Germans, the Berlin Wall Never Really Came Down]( Three decades later, questions over identity continue to divide Germany. 9 [Acumen]( [How Do Brutal Teen Boot Camps Still Lure Parents?]( Boot camps for troubled teens are flourishing despite their terrible reputation. 10 [Good Sh*t]( [What Beach Vacations Might Look Like in 100 Years]( At the rate we're heating the Earth, our hot spots and cool spots are going to change. You Should Know This [Join Us for the Next Chapter of OZY]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](