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The Bi-Rite Stuff: Sam Mogannam takes grocery retailing to new heights
The San Francisco Chronicle has scooped us here at Edible San Francisco by just a few days, writing about the new
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Spring fever
The first strawberries arrived at the Saturday Berkeley farmers market, which to me marks the official start of spring. I didn't get any, as I thought I would pick some up on the way back past the one stand that had them (Catalan Farm, I think?) and by then, of course, they were gone. But asparagus
Wired’s Infoporn on mapping the price of a calorie
The current issue of Wired (16.01) has an infographic feature I put together, with three visuals overlaying the price
Farmers market overload
This Hook'n'Go cart, specially designed for farmers markets — a birthday gift from my mom last year, when it was NOT $60, I hope — has been a lifesaver when my personal pack mule husband can't accompany me on my big shops. Saturday was
The Ethicurean Holiday Gift Guide 2007
I had mixed feelings about doing this gift guide again, because truthfully, I'm pretty sick of stuff right now. And I was feeling that way even before I watched "The Story of Stuff," a new 20-minute film about what exactly our insatiable urge to consume
“A three-ring circus of fruits and vegetables”: Monterey Market in film
I spent part of a beautiful sunny afternoon last weekend watching a documentary about a grocery store. That's right, a documentary about a grocery store. Some of you might be thinking that I saw Robert Greenwald's "Walmart: The High Cost of Low
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Spring harvests in Montreal
Spring is sprung — even though it is officially over in a few days — and our farmers markets are finally showing some local produce besides last years carrots. Most importantly, asparagus is here. I have been buying and grilling it for almost a week now, and I don't see Noshette and I getting bored
The naked fridge, and some thoughts on pound-foolishness
I know, I know, we were tagged ages ago for the "Blogs That Make You Think" list, and I still haven't posted the nominations I collected from the other Ethicureans. Soon, I swear. But this other meme that's going around the food blogs
Hurray for Hogtown (or as some call it, Toronto)
To celebrate Passover, a time when the Jews wandered 40 years in the desert searching for the land of milk & honey, Noshette and I wandered 4 hours westward in search of organic milk and wild honey (and some other sustainable foods). Noshette was born and raised in Toronto, so we were going there
Focus on Florida Food – Part II
Josh's Organic Market - Hollywood, Florida After our 1-nighter in the Gulf Coast of Florida, where we saw a memorable Leon Redbone concert and enjoyed a good meal of local fish and seafood, Noshette of the North
Montreal profile: A tale of tofu
Eating ethically isn't especially easy. For one thing, it means cutting down on my meat consumption, at least until I find more sources of meat that my stomach can stomach, now that it is actually attached to my brain. Also, Noshette is a born-again omnivore and it still getting her meat-feet wet, so
Horizon’s half-and-half attempt at going “beyond organic”
Horizon Organic (the largest organic milk producer in the U.S.) today announced it had published a new set of guidelines governing "Standards of Care" on its company-owned farms. Under fire from the Cornucopia
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Digest: Farm aids, cool retailing concept in UK, fake grouper on menus
The age of agri-tourism: Small farms are increasingly diversifying into non-agricultural activities like farm tours, cheese-making classes, and photo safaris. The income from such activities often dwarfs their revenues from crops. New
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Winter realities in Montreal, Canada
This has been a pretty hard week for me. You see, I’ve spent the last two or three years getting more acquainted with the environment and sustainable food sources, but I never really felt accountable to anyone but myself — and I was a pretty forgiving person, to myself at least. I tried to do the
Locavorean notes from all over
Last week I asked readers how they eat locally in winter. A few MidWesterners responded, and I decided to call Mom of La Muncha, who lives in Northern New Mexico, to see what local options are like in in the high country. Also, check out our
