Social and Economic Theory: In Cultures and the Kitchen

By Dint:

Who Will Bell the Cat? "Piers Plowman" and 14th Century Social and Economic Theory.
William Langland, 1332-1400. Poem: Langland adds to Aesop's Fable about belling the cat. The plan failed because noone would do it. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled. Far worse for the community. Find out why.

Rumpelstiltskin 
Thinks one: When you don't know the answer, sneak around and cheat. Finds out the other: ha! Bartering with the Mannikin? Never a good idea, but here it leads to a Bad End for the Mannikin.

Sassafras:  Industry Opportunity; Social and Economic Uses
Explore sassafras to improve the economic position of some.

Sassafras - Industry Pressure to Call Safrole, a Food Component, an Additive?. Put sassafras back in the kitchen. Re-establishing safrole as useful when used with ordinary care in foods could open up economic benefits, as well as health. Is that so? The FDA exerts jurisdiction over safrole merely because of a label it gives to it, as an "additive." How can something that is itself a food, be an additive?  The carcinogenicity of safrole in sassafras is no greater than the the safrole in your spice or herb shelf.  Test that. Is that so?