{"id":1786717,"date":"2018-11-20T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786717"},"modified":"2018-11-20T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:36:50","slug":"how-america-mapped-its-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/how-america-mapped-its-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"How America Mapped Its Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/events\/fine-and-fertile-country\"><strong><em>A Fine and Fertile Country: How America Mapped Its Meals<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, an exhibition at the Harvard Map Collection, runs through 1 March 2019. \u201cHarvard\u2019s maps of American agriculture, ranging from the colonial period to current GIS data, demonstrate how food production has been a matter of concern ever since the first colonists arrived. The history of finding and farming food in the United States is a story of culture and convenience, capitalism and cattle drives. Academic arguments aside, once you see what the maps will show you, you might never look at apples and potatoes the same way.\u201d No online version yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fine and Fertile Country: How America Mapped Its Meals, an exhibition at the Harvard Map Collection, runs through 1 March 2019. \u201cHarvard\u2019s maps of American agriculture, ranging from the colonial period to current GIS&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/how-america-mapped-its-meals\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312],"tags":[50,863,48,158],"class_list":["post-1786717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-exhibitions","tag-food","tag-libraries","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790248,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/how-black-cartographers-have-mapped-racism-in-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786717,"position":0},"title":"How Black Cartographers Have Mapped Racism in America","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Writing at The Conversation, geographers Derek Alderman and Joshua Inwood explore African American examples of \u201ccounter-mapping,\u201d from maps made by the Black Panthers proposing new police districts to modern interactive maps of lynchings and police violence. \u201cBlack Americans were among the earliest purveyors of counter-mapping, deploying this alternative cartography to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Human Geography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Human Geography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/human-geography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5912,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/londonist-mapped\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786717,"position":1},"title":"Londonist Mapped","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 November 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Londonist Mapped: Hand Drawn Maps for the Curious Explorer came out last month from AA Publishing. 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Here you'll find maps of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/londonist-mapped.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/londonist-mapped.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/londonist-mapped.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/londonist-mapped.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1184,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/roger-cohens-mapped-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786717,"position":2},"title":"Roger Cohen&#8217;s Mapped Life","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"I could not dispose of my redundant maps. 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