Food writer and Locavorean Greg Atkinson recently was on a local radio show and inverted the culinary maxim that chicken is a blank canvas on which to paint flavors. He suggested that cooks should use nothing more than salt and pepper on their chicken, an approach that makes much more sense when you have […]
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I have a bone to pick with Julie Powell
Eggs in aspic. “Bitch Rice.” Live lobster, split and grilled. Those are just a few of the things Julie Powell cooked in Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, and 1 tiny apartment kitchen. This book came out last year but I just bought it as a remainder and devoured it over a few nights.
Shortly […]
Europe and GM food
The NY Times (free registration required) reports on a rift over biotech foods among EU governments. Some of the EU governments are in favor of genetically modified (G.M.) crops, but they are out of step with their own citizens who express concerns about whether G.M. crops are safe for the consumers or the environment.
“The […]
Whole Foods gets its dukes up
Whole Foods, which Pollan gently smacked around a little (OK, a lot) in The Omnivore’s Dilemma for its “supermarket pastoral” accounts of family farmers that don’t match up with reality, is fighting back — in a liberal, let’s-talk-about-this-like-nice-people way, that is.
CEO John Mackey, who was profiled lovingly on 60 Minutes last weekend (but I missed […]
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