Years ago, a group of friends would organize a potluck Thanksgiving for the “orphans” - people who would not spend the holiday with family for whatever reason. Everyone would bring something, either a prepared dish or a healthy appetite, and we would sit in the living room of the venerable 4th Avenue house in […]
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Fight the power: The Meatrix II 1/2 and “Fast Food Nation”
The fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s muckraking best-seller “Fast Food Nation” opens around the United States today. As I wrote last month, I caught the sneak preview and although I have a few beefs with it, I do think it’s well worth seeing — especially if you can drag along a teenager, say, or an […]
Digest: Future food-industry scientists, stealthy Pepsi, turkey hunting in Napa
New York Times*: The youth organization once known as Future Farmers of America is thriving, having dropped any reference to actual farming from its name. The membership has changed as well: more FFA members now come from towns & suburbs and want to be not farmers, but food-industry scientists, seed bioengineers, florists, landscapers and renewable […]
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