archive for June, 2008

Music for Ethicurean ears: Carbon/Silicon’s “The News”

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, June 14th, 2008.

I’ve been wanting to launch a series on “Ethicureanish” music, and a friend in England has just turned me on to a great band with which to start. Carbon/Silicon is the project of Mick Jones (formerly of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite) and Tony James (Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik). They make politically astute, current-sounding punkish rock.

Vertical farms on Colbert Report

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, June 14th, 2008.

Stephen Colbert had Dickson Despommier, the mastermind behind the Vertical Farm Project, on to talk about highrise farming in urban areas.

Safeway’s unintentional commentary on modern tomatoes

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, June 10th, 2008.

Safeway is running ads declaring that their tomatoes are “robust,” a word that makes me think of strength and resilience, two qualities that should have nothing to do with burstingly juicy red orbs.

Bluefin tuna finally extinct: “Well worth it,” say sushi fans

by Guest @ Monday, June 9th, 2008.

Heads of state, movie stars, and tycoons gathered in Tokyo to pay tribute to the world’s favorite sushi fish: the bluefin tuna. The occasion marked the passage of exactly one month since the bluefin was declared extinct.

How LOHAS can you go? Sales of organic processed food soar

by Bonnie P. @ Sunday, June 8th, 2008.

Brandweek reports that despite the down economy, Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) consumers are happy to open their wallets for higher-priced organic cereal, jelly, pasta, produce, soup, and ready-to-serve prepared food.

Postcard from Portland, ME: Even Andrew Zimmern knows that Rabelais is the place to be

by Ali @ Saturday, June 7th, 2008.

Should you find yourself in Portland, Maine, on the first Friday of the month, you can participate in the monthly art-walk, a self-guided tour of local galleries, studios, museums, and other venues. There are plenty to choose from —62 venues in June ’08, to be exact. One of those venues might Rabelais. You don’t know […]

Mini-Digest: Monsanto wants to “save” the world, Kill Bill Vol. 247, SOLE research in the pipeline

by Janet @ Friday, June 6th, 2008.

Monsanto to double yields, Farm Bill in peril again, chickens slaughtered, more.

Who owns the last bite?

by Elanor @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008.

Wall Street speculators, hedging their bets on the food crisis, snap up pieces of the food system.

The politics of world food shortages

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008.

In today’s New York Times, Andy Martin reports from Rome on an emergency summit called to address food shortages, climate change, and energy, while a recent New Yorker essay puts the food crisis in context of Thomas Malthus’s famous predictions that population growth would be curbed by famine.

Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008.

San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newson sat down with chef, food activist, and Slow Food International vice president Alice Waterso to help publicize Slow Food Nation, a giant celebration of food, farming, and culture that is coming to San Francisco on Labor Day weekend in late August.

The 2008 Farm Bill: Pollan, Eschmeyer on a bittersweet victory

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, June 4th, 2008.

Yesterday Michael Pollan — who, whether he likes it or not is the most widely read spokesperson for the sustainable food movement — sent an email to his list-serv (subscribe here) with his thoughts on the 2008 Farm Bill that finally passed. In short, he thinks that despite the highest levels of activism in a generation, it is “not a very good bill.”

Are tomatoes the kickoff to food-illness season?

by Janet @ Wednesday, June 4th, 2008.

Ugh. Looks like our industrial food system is cranking out the salmonella for broad distribution again. That’s the word from the latest Food and Drug Administration consumer alert. The current culprit: tomatoes. Where? Texas and New Mexico. Oh, and maybe Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, and Utah, too.
Thank goodness I know my […]

Ethicureans, meet the Eggicureans: A visit to Michigan’s Crane Dance Farm

by Guest @ Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008.

Mary and Jill are working to take this farm back. Originally built in the mid-19th century, it had fallen into disrepair and overgrowth. They are working on rebuilding pastures and thinning out thickets to let hardwoods and grasses grow. They make it personal. They name most of their animals, care for them gently, and love them.

Local food promoted as economic development tool

by Janet @ Monday, June 2nd, 2008.

It’s one of the ironies of our food system that here in Kansas, one of the largest agriculture states in the union, we don’t have a whole lot of local food. It doesn’t have to be that way. What’s more, a turnaround in that situation is a good economic development plan.
That was the message that […]

Snacks for the ears: Podcasts with authors Frederick Kaufman, Paul Roberts, Taras Grescoe, and more

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Sunday, June 1st, 2008.

Catching up on podcasts this weekend I listened to a few that might interest Ethicurean readers: Fredrick Kaufman talking about America’s eating history, Good Food from KCRW talking about sustainable seafood and backyard chickens, and Paul Roberts talking about his new book “The End of Food” on On Point Radio.

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