I thought a lot about local food last night as I made the 28-mile (roundtrip) journey to get the turkey I’ll roast for my family’s Christmas dinner. Does it make a lot of sense, I wondered, for one person (me) to use over a gallon of gas to pick up one turkey?
I have to conclude […]
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Meat & Poultry asked the press contacts of the various presidential candidates where they stood on issues affecting protein producers. Democratic candidate John Edwards gave them a lot more than they asked for.
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37 hours left to help feed Lesotho kids — and win great prizes — through Menu for Hope IV
Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim is once again spearheading the epic online fund-raiser Menu for Hope to benefit the U.N. World Food Programme. In 2006 she raised over $62,000. This year’s donations — which just passed $55,000! — will be earmarked for the school lunch program in Lesotho.
O, Christmas tree
Not exactly a food topic, but if you’re still deliberating about a Christmas tree (real tree? artificial tree? no tree? see what Grist’s Umbra had to say), here are two ideas that are easier than buying a live one that you have to try to plant somewhere:
My choice, an idea borrowed from a friend: a […]
The joy of cookbooks: Judith Jones’s “The Tenth Muse”
Nearly fifty years after editing “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” the book that launched Julia Child, Judith Jones (now senior editor and vice-president at Alfred A. Knopf) has written her own memoir: “The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.” Having grown up in a family that served only staid, simple, British-influenced meals, she developed a passion for food and cooking that led her to France (and back) and, eventually, to editing a large number of ground-breaking cookbooks.
Bigger and badder: Prof. Phil Howard on consolidation in the organic industry
Q&A with Phil Howard, assistant professor of community, agriculture, recreation and resource studies at Michigan State University, about the impact of consolidation in the organic industry, the concentration ratio principle of economics, the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger, and more.
What the postman brings to an Ethicurean (ware)house…
It’s kinda been all Farm Bill, all the time around the blog for what seems like a while.
I’ve had a nasty cold that stole my voice for over a week, causing me to sound like Demi Moore with a tracheotomy. A vat of homemade chicken noodle soup seems to have finally banished the bugs: I […]
An uncivil war: Mapping the defeat of subsidy reform
These days, votes in the Senate are usually either along party lines (51-49), or lopsided like 98-2 or 100-0. However, the vote on the Dorgan-Grassley amendment, which would have set a $250,000 limit for farm subsidy payments to any one farm, was unusual. The No votes were cast by 31 Republicans, 11 Democrats and […]
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