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Michael Pollan on the rise of the food movement(s)
Pollan nation: In what is ostensibly a five-book review for the June 10 New York Review of Books, journalist Michael Pollan has an epic essay charting the emergence and character of the food movement. Or, as he puts it, "'movements,' since it is unified as yet by
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Food & Wine magazine sins against the monkfish
A monkfish (Wikimedia Commons) In the January 2010 issue of Food & Wine magazine,
Chilling out: A review of “Fresh: A Perishable History”
Locavores like me live for the local farmers market, not just for the conversations with the farmers, but also for the wide variety of fresh,
Outta space?: R. J. Ruppenthal’s “Fresh Food From Small Spaces”
Though I've been lucky to "borrow" my friends' back yard for a garden this year, during the winter I still crave growing something green and
Grass act: Gene Logsdon’s “All Flesh Is Grass”
As the problems of industrial meat production — CAFOs, excessive waste and pollution, worker
I can read you like a cook: A review of “Kitchen Literacy”
As the local-food movement broadens and more people find pleasure in shopping at the local farmers markets and/or in growing their own produce, we find more folks 'fessing up to their lack of expertise. How do you know when a fruit or vegetable is ripe? What's the difference between various cuts of meat?
An “Unsettling” look at industrial agriculture
The flaws of industrial agriculture and the current backlash against it came into sharp focus a couple of weeks ago, following the death of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, well-known for his exhortations to
The joy of cookbooks: Judith Jones’s “The Tenth Muse”
When I read "My Life in France" by Julia Child a couple of years ago, I was struck by the vast effort it took to edit and publish her first book in the United States, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." Written with her French co-authors, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, this
