April Fool’s, now and then
You've probably guessed by now that Marc's post about bacon popcorn below is a spoof. It may have been too plausible a concept; last year's
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Retrovore shows how to start plants from seeds
Not too long ago food-politics blogging pioneer Kerry Trueman — who used to write primarily at Eating Liberally
A visual depiction of the US slaughterhouse industry
Extremely chilling animation depicting the rate of slaughter,
BAMCO backs Florida tomato pickers in fight for fair labor standards
CIW's Lucas Benitez and BAMCO CEO Fedele Bauccio in Florida. Photo from Straus Comm. release Jane Black reports in the Washington
Housekeeping notice: Coming changes to the Ethicurean
The Ethicurean is approaching its third birthday, and we are attempting to implement some long overdue changes. A major redesign is in the works that we
WK Kellogg’s Food and Society 2009: Follow the foundation funding
I've just come back from the WK Kellogg Foundation's invitation-only Food
What two 19th-century cities can teach us about community-based food systems
While compiling this week's (long overdue) Digest, I came across the excellent
Straight to the superbug supersource: Q&A with Maryn McKenna about MRSA in people — and pigs
Everyone's up in arms about historian James McWilliams' New York Times op-ed last week, misleadingly headlined "Free-Range
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Postcard from England: Farm Collective opens cafe
Earlier this month I spent 10 days in England, visiting friends from grad school in London, Hove (near Brighton), and Diss (near Norwich). I was there for fun, but it was impossible not to see with Ethicurean
Marlow & Daughters butcher shop: “This meat is our reputation”
A recent Coolhunting.com video highlights
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The slaughter bottleneck in buying local meat
Last fall I wrote a piece for Mother Jones' sustainability issue, on how the lack of small-scale slaughter facilities hampers both local meat production and distribution. It was bumped from that issue,
Eat, drink, think: San Franciscans, come play Edible Pursuit this Sunday!
As anyone who's opened up a magazine or a newspaper recently knows, the print publishing industry is in deep trouble. (When the New Yorker has not a single ad between the inside cover and the Table of
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Technical difficulties
Update 2:15 pm PST: due to site maintenance and um, a mad scramble to troubleshoot the WP system, comments and other features will be unavailable for a few hours. Due to my foot-dragging, our blog host
Edible San Francisco’s Meat Issue
The latest Edible San Francisco (of which I am deputy editor) is the Meat Issue and has several articles available online that I think will also be of interest to Ethicurean readers. Head over to ESF's
Sustainable Pork Smackdown, Pt. 2: Why Bay Area residents should choose local pork
By Bonnie Azab Powell | Illustration by Marcos Sorenson Read Pt. 1: Why Bay Area residents
