From the Ivory Tower Kitchen: A 21-point Introspection into Consumption

We may squirm at the label, but we are consumers. We consume for sustenance, greed, and everything in between. The advocacy movement for a better food system has been knocking on the doors of change for a very long time, but in recent times, there seems to be a burgeoning nucleus driven by hints of institutional buy-in. As consumers of food, we are theoretically equipped with the power to solve many of the problems we may have helped cause by our nature of demands over time.

I am a professional chef and mathematician. The number 21 is special to me for many reasons. My wife and I married on July 21st. My wife was born on February 1st. The number 21 is a triangular number and the smallest non-trivial Fibonacci number whose digits are also Fibonacci numbers. It is also the smallest number of distinct squares needed to tile a square .