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RIP crap beef

by Charlotte @ Wednesday, February 27th, 2008.

“No grilling, no barbecue: Recalled beef buried in landfill” was the lede story of my local paper in Livingston, Montana, this evening. The Livingston Enterprise led with a large photo of a front end loader burying recalled Hallmark/Westland beef.

Alice Waters and Montana’s Ameya Preserve: Slow Food uber alles?

by Charlotte @ Sunday, November 18th, 2007.

Five hundred grand — that’s what Alice Waters sold us out for, reports the Journal: “Ms. Waters says she signed onto the project because Mr. Dokken agreed to pledge $500,000 to Slow Food Nation, an organization she founded: ‘I wanted the money for Slow Food.’”

Strange bedfellows: Why is Alice Waters involved with the Ameya Preserve in Montana?

by Charlotte @ Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007.

Alice Waters is everywhere right now, doing press for her new book, and the old argument over whether “Alice is an Elitist” is getting a fair amount of play – Adam at Amateur Gourmet thinks perhaps yes, while David Lebowitz (who worked at Chez Panisse for a long time) says no. Personally, I have no idea. But I do know that her name is being bandied about my Livingston, Montana, neighborhood these days in conjunction with a gated development of big, luxury second homes, and I am concerned.

LivingSmall in Montana: What’s in your freezer?

by Charlotte @ Friday, September 7th, 2007.

If local is the new organic, then most of my friends here are very trendy. As with most little towns in the scenic intermountain west, we have our issues between the newbies and the locals, but game cuts across all the class boundaries — we all eat local wild meat. Whatever you might feel about hunting, you have to admit that you can’t get much more local than going out on a cold fall morning before sunrise, then shooting, field dressing, and packing out an animal that is destined for your freezer. An animal you intend to eat for the next year.

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