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Chewin’ in Charleston
Noshette and I went down south to Charleston, South Carolina, to attend a wedding of an old childhood friend of hers and we did a little bit of Ethicureanating while we were there. (once the word Ethicurean gets an entry in the dictionary, we'll have to figure out how to conjugate it.) A quick bit of Googling got us to a restaurant called
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Digest – Blogs: Let’s scrap the Farm Bill, winter marketing, the golden age of apples
Just plow it under: Annie Myers reports on an event at NYU, “The Farm Bill 2007," with Marion Nestle, Dan Barber, Christina Grace, and the absent yet omnipresent omnivores-dilemma-in-chief — and makes an awesomely radical suggestion. "Maybe we should consider "scrapping the
Digest – Commentary: Tesco to open in poor neighborhoods, Monbiot on biofuels, GMO warriors
Testing Tesco: A hard look at British supermarket giant Tesco's promises it will open stores in U.S. "food deserts" like South Central L.A. (Los Angeles Times) Starve so we can
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Getting a feel for Philadelphia’s local-food scene
Note to RSS readers: Flash-based slideshow is embedded in post. When you come from a smaller city in a rural area and your main local-foods choices consist of a couple of upscale restaurants or your own home cooking (with produce from the farmers market, of course), sometimes you want to know what it's
Is the success of farmers markets hurting farmers?
[Updated on 9/22 to include positive sentiments from farmers about farmers markets] Just as I was thinking that the Bay Area is enjoying a golden age of farmers markets, with a multitude of farmers markets bringing fresh, local food directly from the farm to the consumer, reality drops in: farmers markets
Digest – News & Commentary: Bee breakthrough, popcorn lung, progressive grocers
Duck! Six days' worth of links coming at you. Yeah, we're playing catch-up on some big news, and it really is 2:15 a.m. NEWS Unraveling the bee mystery: Genetic research on bees has indicated that Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) may be the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in American bees.
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“Fresh beets”!
Heaven knows that "the lower-middle portion of the food pyramid" could use some grassroots advertising … but I don't think this video, made by two guys working in the produce section of an A&P, is it. You can't beet the silly wordplay, however, and I think it's a shame that the
Catching up: Washington State locavoreanism
The Butter Bitch and I have been on hiatus for the past few months, due to our day jobs and ongoing projects. The Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine devotes most of this week's issue to an overview of Washington's locavorean
What the Australian supermarket takeover means
Wesfarmers has made a takeover bid for the Coles Group, which includes Australia’s second most successful supermarket chain, after Woolworths. This week the National Association of Retail Grocers in Australia, which represents independent grocery groups such
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Digest: Farm Bill runs aground, drought desperation, urban inspiration
A big thank-you to the 150 of you (!) who have taken our 15-minute survey about the Digest. Your comments so far are quite interesting, surprisingly civil, rather punny, and are going to be very useful as we decide what
Digest: Bee investigation continues, subsidy recipients bared, track your fruit
NEWS Death, where is thy sting: This excellent update on the search for the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees says that neonicotinoids have probably been ruled out, cell phone signals are laughed at, and most signs are pointing to a biological pathogen or parasite. (Los
Digest: Industry, test thyself; biofuel polluters, genocide v. sodas
NEWS Test and ye shall find: Reporting for NPR, Sam Fromartz goes inside Natural Selection Foods, the mega-grower at the center of last year's spinach E. coli scare, which has started an ambitious testing program for all its
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the goodest, cleanest, and fairest of them all?
In case you haven't been following the comments section of Mental Masala's and my post today about Slow Food leader Carlo Petrini's lecture in San Francisco, there's quite a kerfuffle over the part in his new book in which he visits San Francisco's
Digest: Organic vs. conventional farms in court, Canada to up pesticide limits, what we used to eat
NEWS Don't spray thy neighbor: In a case that could reverberate through the county (and the country, we say), a judge has ordered a farming service company to temporarily stop spraying pesticides that a Santa Cruz, CA, organic farmer says are moving with the fog onto his field and destroying his crop.
Toronto, Ontario – Part Two
Note: This is the second part of a 2-part series about my visit to Toronto, Ontario. Part One can be found here. "Pass the peas!" "Pass the chicken!" "Pass the matzah!" One thing about visiting family: You
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