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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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Foraging in Quebec
This week was Noshette's birthday, and among the many things we did to celebrate was to have dinner at Les Jardins Sauvages, which in English means "the wild gardens", a woodland table restaurant in St.Roch de l'Achigan. (Since I
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
Digest – Features: Heirloom bees, canning is hot, raw-milk cheesemakers unite
Bee-coming an apiarist: Keeping bees is a dying pastime, so much so that the "heirloom" strains of native bees have almost vanished. Can people with just a few hives in their backyard really make any difference? (New York Times) "Pickling
Vermont Diary – Part I
I just came back from 2 amazing days in Northern Vermont. You see, I was hired to be a chauffeur to an evil capitalist management consultant who was going to a small Vermont town - with or without me - to convince a nice small-town Vermont construction company owner to diversify and morph into a greedy
Digest – Features & Blogsnacks: Demand for school gardens, Barber on high-tech eco-farmers
Greening the curriculum: California is the first state to allocate $ 15 million to support gardens in the state's 6,000 schools, and teachers and school officials are lining up to fin out how to get funding and start digging. (San
Digest – News and Commentary: canned food recall, Farm Bill happenings, soda sagas
Botulism alert boosted: The recall of canned meat products made by Castleberry's Food Co. (under many, many labels) has expanded to cover almost 100 products. The article has a list of brand names and a contact number. (San
Digest – Features: toxic gardens, green restaurants, stylish shopping bags
A side of sustainability: Solar water-heated dishwashers, biodiesel delivery trucks, local produce are all part of the burgeoning trend of "green" restaurants in Los Angeles. Russ Parsons tries to make sense of the claims, shows what restaurateurs are doing (and are not doing, like totally
Digest – news and commentary: People’s Grocery, Wendy’s plans, Alice speaks
Feeling a little bit unethical?: The Wendy's fast food chain is improving its animal welfare practices by setting up a preferential buying program that rewards pork producers that don't use gestation crates (cages so small that a pregnant or nursing sow can't turn around) and chicken producers using
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Becasse chef Justin North sounds wake-up call for Australians
This is the third guest post from Melbourne writer Jillian Burt, who has two of her own blogs, Yamazaki's Notebook and the new Soul Food.
SOLE dining at Fife in Portland, Oregon
July 9, 2009 update: Fife restaurant closed in May. According to OregonLive, chef Marco Shaw closed the restaurant so he could move to North Carolina, where he plans to start a new restaurant and establish
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Au Pied de Cochon – - my birthday dinner
I apologize for not posting last week, but I've been quite busy lately. I've spent the better part of the last two weeks playing drums for a college production of the musical "Hair" and I also celebrated my birthday last week. Noshette kindly took me out to an early dinner (I had a 7pm curtain call)
Digest: Iowa’s gamble, Quebec ponders GM labeling, animal IDs are COOL
"Fueling Iowa's Future": An informative new series launched today in preparation of the 2008 Iowa caucuses. A number of articles and graphics highlight the state's opportunities — and the serious challenges — as Iowa attempts to become an alternative energy leader for the nation. Des
Digest: Mergers, monopolies, thieves, imposters, and rats
Bad seed: A proposed merger between Monsanto (the world's largest seed company) and the nation's largest cottonseed seller could mean bad news for organic cotton growers, says the Center for Food Safety, which is seeking to block the deal. Wired
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Digest: Santa Cruz named state’s healthy-food capital, cloning in practice, foodies make you fat
Santa Cruz beats Marin: A new study found that California has about four times as many fast food restaurants and convenience stores as healthier alternatives. In Santa Cruz County, the ratio was fewer than two unhealthy options for every healthy one — the highest proportion of healthy food options
