Articles written by Bonnie Azab Powell

The ‘femivore’: New breed of feminist, or frontier throwback?

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on March 14, 2010

Cross-posted from Grist, where I am serving as deputy

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Ethicurean nominated for Treehugger Best of Green award!

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on March 8, 2010

The Ethicurean has been nominated for a TreeHugger.com Best

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What’s P-Cresol and why is it in my food? “Don’t Eat That” iPhone app will tell you

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on February 5, 2010

A simple little iPhone app launched a few days ago that demystifies

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It takes a city to save a farm: How the Bay Area food and farming community helped Soul Food Farm recover from a devastating fire

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on November 9, 2009

I posted previously on Ethicurean (here and here)

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Hatching plans to save Soul Food Farm

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on September 7, 2009

Thank you to everyone who's donated to the

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Scorched pastures and lost birds at Soul Food Farm

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on September 4, 2009

The Bay Area's well-known, much-loved Soul

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Who’s afraid of Big Bad Agribiz? Not “Food Inc.” — but eaters and farmers may be

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on June 12, 2009

You've most likely heard about "Food, Inc.," the new documentary about

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“The Failure of Science”: New paper makes a damning case against genetically modified food crops

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It’s about volume, not price: How Straus Family Creamery is weathering the organic dairy storm

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Postcard from the Sustainable Foods Institute in Monterey

I'm here in Monterey for the Sustainable Foods Institute, which the Monterey Bay Aquarium (creator of the Seafood

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Ripe time, ripe place: In England, a groundswell of food growers outstrips supply of land

My piece about allotment gardening in the United Kingdom has just been published in the Washington Post food

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Vote! Organic Film Trailer Competition finalists announced

The Organic Summit has announced the 12 finalists for its first annual Organic

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Ethicurean redesign is a little half-baked

Whenever I attempt to have more than four people over for dinner at a time, I quickly get out of my depth. I don't plan what has to go in the oven when very well, and inevitably I'm racing around in a

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Ask the Ethicurean: How do I work to change the food system?

We recently received an email from a reader asking for career advice on how best to make a difference in the food system. He has given me permission to post it here with his name removed — I'll call

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CDC briefing: Novel H1N1 virus not raging out of control yet

The Centers for Disease Control held a press briefing this morning at 1 p.m. EST about the "novel H1N1" virus. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for the Science and

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