CRAFT rises at Chatham University

events and promotion and education and training. (Students already have started creating an all-local pizza with Oakmont’s Tomanetti Food Products, which will eventually sell it.)

Resources on CRAFT’s website include an interactive map of farmers markets, farm stands and CSA pickup sites; coming soon are maps showing the region’s agricultural capacity and Allegheny County’s food business capacity.

“One of our goals is to be the house for food and agriculture research in the region,” Ms. Malis says. That said, they realize, “A lot of what we’re doing could be recognized nationally as well.”

In addition to running workshops all semester, Ms. Julier notes that “we’ll be starting pop-up dinners in a month or two,” again centered around the Lodge Kitchen, which the center plans to transform into its Kitchen Lab.

The focus will be to teach not just the hard skills, such as cooking, but also, says Ms. Malis, “We want to really focus on the academic, culturaland scientific knowlegethat goes with that.”

The terrifying part is that eventually America will be faced with some sort of crisis either at home or in the form of a financial showdown such as a stock market plunge that constitutes more than just a correction, or abroad in the form of some real threat to American security. Don’t even think about a North Korean nuclear attack or serious Russian military activity in Eastern Europe. Eventually, Mr. Trump will be called upon to act. He appears in the book to be incapable of any action that isn’t personalized, nasty, vindictive and fundamentally uninformed.

Incidentally, there is also so much about former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon in the book that it is almost a Bannon “credo.” Mr. Bannon has to have been one of Mr. Wolff’s