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Cooking outside the zone: Agretti, paired with fregola

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on August 13, 2010

At last week's farmers market, one of my outside the zone choices (made in honor of National

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Cooking outside the comfort zone: green tomatoes

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on August 4, 2010

In the world of science, there's something called "publication bias," which

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Yes we icon: SOLE food movement needs images

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on July 12, 2010

To mark the opening of "Water, Rivers and People (Agua, Ríos y Pueblos)," a photography exhibition about people's relationship with rivers and their struggle

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‘Top Chef’ fails school-food test, but Colicchio passes with flying colors

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on July 8, 2010

In Episode 2 of this season's "Top

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Survey explores why Americans garden, but not why they don’t

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on June 23, 2010

[Update 6/24/10: corrected heading for column 2 in table] With a terrible economy and lots of coverage of gardening in the mass media, more and more Americans

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The USDA looks at local food

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on June 10, 2010

Every now and then, newspapers print an article

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Students slice and dice for a better future in ‘Pressure Cooker’ documentary

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on May 24, 2010

With a supervisor who doesn't mince words and likes to yell, men

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