Thoughts on Slow Food Nation: Politics vs. taste, competition vs. cooperation
I'm a bad, guilty blogger these days. I spent Friday and Saturday of Slow Food Nation just taking it all in — the
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Oprah show torpedos CAFOs, gives props to Prop. 2
As just about everyone probably knows, most of Oprah's Tuesday show was devoted to reporter Lisa Ling's "How
Wear the Sun-Food Agenda on your chest
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Food politics gets a prestigious platform, with Michael Pollan’s manifesto in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine
Michael Pollan — the closest thing the sustainable food movement has to a leader, even if he insists on pretending he remains just a journalist — wants
Videos posted for Slow Food Nation’s Food for Thought series
Good news for all you folks who couldn't make it to Slow Food Nation on Labor Day weekend, or who, like me, did
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Energy to spare: Clif Bar Q&A and profile
At the Eco-Farm conference this past January, Tom Philpott and I were suitemates. (He was
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Slow Food Nation: Let the delicious revolution begin!
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Mini-Digest (Blogs): Shredding the NYT’s locavore coverage, the end of food — and the organic boom? Plus TCHO Chocolate TV
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Hey Obama? You really stepped in a cow pie with this Veneman-for-Veep idea
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