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Digest: Soybean seeds, meat spoof, Big Ag girding for battle
New York Times: With trans fat bans going into effect, demand is surging for Monsanto's low-linolenic acid soybeans. The article, by the usually reliable Andrew Martin, fails to make clear whether these soybeans have been genetically modified or just selectively bred to be "low lin."
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Fingertip lickin’ good … fast-food court cases
Apologies to you who saw this on SlashFood already, but just in case someone — you know who you are — is tempted to backslide and pull into your favorite fast-food chain in the middle of holiday shopping, well, this
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Worth the hassle: Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix
See those people in the picture above? No, they're not waiting for PlayStations or concert tickets. They are anxiously, competitively queuing for pizza. Not just any pizza, mind you — the "Best Pizza in America," according
Digest: Future food-industry scientists, stealthy Pepsi, turkey hunting in Napa
New York Times*: The youth organization once known as Future Farmers of America is thriving, having dropped any reference to actual farming from its name. The membership has changed as well: more FFA members now come from towns &
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Farmerbrown restaurant: SOLE food with soul, and a side of social justice
There's SOLE food and there's soul food, and rarely do the twain meet. Last night, however, Miss Steak and I got to indulge our tastes for both at farmerbrown restaurant in San Francisco. Open since spring, farmerbrown is a labor of love by chef-owner Jay Foster,
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Tilth: Soil becomes food
This weekend, Man of La Muncha and I made two trips to Tilth, which is the second restaurant in the country to receive Oregon Tilth organic certification. We had heard about the restaurant
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Meat Labeling 101 for restaurant critics
From a restaurant review in today's Baltimore Sun: Good cheap eats are something I'm all for, particularly when there's a nod to the new millennium's sensibilities. The sausage
White Marble Farms: Tempest in a pork chop?
I have a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle's food section today — my first. It's about going to the Globe, a San Francisco restaurant that makes a point of serving sustainable food, and seeing a White Marble Farms pork rib chop on the menu. My husband ordered it, and it was wonderfully tender and
Food + drink: Pair in Seattle
Last Tuesday, Man of La Muncha and I picked up our final CSA box of the season. Along with a bounty of winter squash (including tasty delicatas), we received the final newsletter of the year, which informed us that Helsing Junction produce
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Baltimore brews
Updated with photos! Our long residence on the West Coast gave us the impression that there is no decent beer east of the Rockies until you cross the Canadian border or reach Europe. This bias could have been argued until the mid-1990s. I remember business trips to the East Coast where the only alternatives
Ethicureans abroad: or, our visit to Baltimore
Update: We've added photos after a slight delay.--MolM. This last weekend, Man of La Muncha and I traveled to Baltimore for a friend's wedding. The wedding was wonderful, and we met (and in some cases, re-met) a lot of very fun and interesting people. But, of course, any trip involving Ethicureans
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Ethicurean feast: Five courses at Manka’s Inverness Lodge
The Dairy Queen Mother is in town visiting from DC, and last week Surfer Sis and I went with her to Stinson Beach for a few nights. After my first-ever attempt at surfing (not successful), in Bolinas, we had a not-very-memorable dinner in Stinson. Well, that's not quite true: the raw Tomales Bay oysters
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A Drunken Boat? No, a Stumbling Goat!
Last night, I came home from work to find my kitchen overrun by Ethicureans. Man of La Muncha was mixing cocktails for the crowd. Dairy Queen was here, as was Potato Non Grata. For the first time, we met Omniwhore, E-I-E-I Ho, Momniwhore, and Dadniwhore. The plan was to have pre-dinner drinks and
Digest: Disappearing skills, Crescent City crisis, offal good
New York Times*: County- and state-fair cooking competitions across America are seeing fewer and fewer jams, canned vegetables, and local fare like apple butter. According to one contest organizer, "Canning is the hardest thing to learn
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Digest: USDA swindles again, Monsanto’s still greedy
Washington Post*: A federal court concluded last week that the USDA repeatedly broke the law by allowing genetically-engineered crops to be planted on hundreds of acres in Hawai'i without first studying
