All hail the Greenhorns!: A Weekend Style feature celebrates the emerging movement of young back-to-the-landers, "creating small-scale farms near urban areas hungry for quality produce and willing to pay a premium," many of them being captured in a documentary by Friend o’Ethicurean Severine von Scharner Fleming. Includes cool multimedia feature. (New York Times)
Meet the meat teammates — who knew?: Intercollegiate meat judging has been a serious business for 8 decades; about 40 colleges compete. (Wall Street Journal) Related: Sorry kids, your dreams of being a meat grader may come to a crashing halt, with the USDA’s new robots (Washington Post)
The not-so-organic family tree: Everybody’s blogging (and BoingBoinging) this GOOD magazine infographic by Michigan prof Phil Howard on which conglomerate owns what organic brand. We interviewed Howard back in December on what all this consolidation means.
Your carbon foodprint’s bigger: A more in-depth look than most articles trying to debunk the food miles concept. In the UK, it says, 85% of food transport-related emissions are actually from domestic road deliveries. (CNN.com via The Food Times)
Let there be blight: Thought-provoking story on the origins of, and what was done to avert, the Great Potato Famine of 1845-46. (New York Times)
Does Holy Cross take reservations?: The former pastry chef for the Inn at Little Washington is now cooking lunch for lucky Virginia schoolkids. (USA Today; thanks Christie!)
Could be wurst: Ethical meat-eating heartthrob Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the deliciousness of liver. (The Guardian)
We’ll ghostwrite for food: Blue Hill’s Dan Barber is planning to pen two books about food. (New York Observer)
"The Chihuahua in the Coalmine": The petfood recall sparked an avalanche of Chinese contaminated-food scandals. But it’s all fixed, right? Nope, say those in the know. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Food shopping with Frances Moore Lappé (The Boston Globe)
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