Digest: Diatribe by Cook’s Kimball, musical Ag chairs, get your goat

Boston Globe*: Christopher Kimball, the bow-tied, mild-mannered founder of Cook’s Illustrated — that famously neutral, plain-vanilla cooking magazine — has written a polemic about how capitalism has led us to an inversion of Malcolm Gladwell’s tipping point: “What consumers should want — good flavor and good health — has been replaced by what the industry wants — an addiction to expensive, highly processed trademarked brands that will burden our health system and lead to a much lower quality of life.” Sweet! A major new ally has just joined the revolution.

Delta Farm Press: In the only ag-policy article Keith Good seems to have missed, the Farm Press details what new faces we’ll see after the House and Senate agricultural committees play musical chairs.

Gristmill: A Grist blogger asks, Do animal-rights groups and environmentalists have enough shared objectives to join forces, or should they stay separate groups? Commenters are loaded for bear.

New York Times*: We skipped over this food-section story from last week, thinking it was just more Thanksgiving stuffing, but it actually has good tips for making your holiday meal from the farmers market.

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