archive for April 12th, 2007

Pignorance is not bliss: A weekend making salumi

by @ Thursday, April 12th, 2007.

People who enjoy sausage and respect the law should not watch either being made.
That curt assessment is usually attributed to 19th-century statesman Otto von Bismarck, and I can certainly agree with him about the second part. For example, it’s hard to see how all the maneuvering and wheeling-and-dealing and horse trading going on around the […]

Tonight: Michael Pollan in conversation with Carol Ness

by @ Thursday, April 12th, 2007.

Two of my favorite food reporters will be kicking off National Library Week tonight (7 p.m., April 12) at the Oakland Museum of California: Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” and Carol Ness, the San Francisco Chronicle reporter who has been covering every aspect of SOLE food in the Bay Area since long before […]

Digest: Tomato pickers get raise, Norman Borlaug to the rescue, Wal-Mart retreats

by @ Thursday, April 12th, 2007.

There’s a golf course worth of links coming at ya. Fore!
Pennies add up: McDonald’s has reached agreement with a Florida farmworkers organization to pay 1 cent more per pound for the tomatoes it buys from state farms. Think that’s nothing? It’s a 75 percent pay raise for the laborers. Time for Burger King to pony […]

Step It Up this Saturday, April 14

by @ Thursday, April 12th, 2007.

April 14 is the National Day of Climate Action in the United States, otherwise known as Step It Up 2007. Unlike many “days of action,” Step It Up is not a massive march on Washington. Instead, it is hundreds of small, creative rallies across the nation. When I last checked, there were […]

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