archive for January 3rd, 2008

Digest - News: WSJ says FDA about to approve cloned food

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Blogs: Test your 2007 food-politics knowledge, Nestle on low-fat, ethics of hair mats

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Digest - Features: Big local, organic Apple; Temple Grandin on the ‘guest test,’ proposed new nutrition label

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - Pollanation mania

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

There’s a full crop of reviews of “In Defense of Food,” and an interview with Pollan about it on NPR. Here are the raves and the contrarians, movie-marquee style: “A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential.” — New York Times”Pollan isn’t just asking us to consider changing the way we eat. He’s asking us to join a movement that’s “renovating our food system in the name of health’” — L.A. Times”If you read one book about food this year,” this should be it —The Portland Mercury”Pollan lays bare with impassioned but clear-eyed intelligence the sinister machinations of the contemporary American food industry” — New York Post”[The food movement] couldn’t pray for a better mouthpiece” — Plenty”Page for page, it contains more intellectual and moral nutrition than practically any other book I’m aware of.”

Local Burger on a mission to serve up fast, healthy, local food

by Janet @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

In her two years in business, Hilary Brown has gotten more publicity for her Local Burger restaurant in Lawrence, Kansas, than your average restaurateur can hope to get in twenty. But, then, Brown isn’t your average restaurateur, and Local Burger isn’t your average restaurant.
Brown is the 38-year-old dynamo behind the restaurant that serves healthy fast […]

More Montreal winter

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

I wish I had a tomato. Instead, I get snow.

That is what we woke up to on New Year’s day.
I would easily trade all this snow for a fresh tomato that I can slice as thick as I want, because I have so many tomatoes. My garden has given me so many tomatoes, and my […]

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