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‘Top Chef’ should take up the ultimate challenge: school lunch
Season 7 of Bravo’s Top Chef will be based in Washington, D.C., reported the Metrocurean (no relation) a few days ago, with filming to begin in early April. That means that the popular reality show, with
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What does asthma have to do with farm animals — or food?
When government officials hear the words "backyard livestock," they tend to worry about disease outbreaks and sanitation crises. And for good reason, as improperly managed animals — including dogs and cats —
Michelle Obama, Sam Kass tell White House Kitchen Garden’s story
Groundbreaking video: The White House has released a 7-minute video of showing the progress of the first "really-productive, feeding-a-lot-of-people" garden (as White House chef Sam Kass puts it) on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. While the word "organic"
Farmers, got extra or ugly fruits/veg?
"Maybe they don't know what a peach is": Information about California's Farm to Family program, encouraging California's growers and packers to help reduce hunger, reduce waste, and increase markets for specialty crops by donating (or selling) their excess
Houston Press tells, shows where fajita beef comes from
Before hipsters discovered butchery class: Houston Press reporter Robb Walsh has a long but fascinating feature on his recent adventures in butchery, which "all started with a meat mystery — call it the case of the disappearing skirt." Walsh was developing fajita recipes for a grilling cookbook but
‘So we’re eating at Taco Bell and we’re cleaning the Earth!’
Extra Onion, please!: The Onion has the most satisfying send-up of fast-food greenwashing we've seen in a while. Love it. SHARETHIS.addEntry({
The lost art of butchery moves to YouTube
Cowpooling director: Very nice piece by friend o'Ethicurean Tamar Adler on meeting a Le Grand, CA, butcher who processes mostly beef and lamb for the people who raised them or their customers. Thankfully, Bill McCann has begun to preserve his dying skills on digital video for the Inertent age. (Civil
Retrovore shows how to start plants from seeds
Not too long ago food-politics blogging pioneer Kerry Trueman — who used to write primarily at Eating Liberally (which she cofounded) but now blogs around
April Fool’s, now and then
You've probably guessed by now that Marc's post about bacon popcorn below is a spoof. It may have been too plausible a concept; last year's wildly improbable April Fool's Digest
Marlow & Daughters butcher shop: “This meat is our reputation”
A recent Coolhunting.com video highlights Marlow & Daughters, an old-world
The slaughter bottleneck in buying local meat
Last fall I wrote a piece for Mother Jones' sustainability issue, on how the lack of small-scale slaughter facilities hampers both local meat production and distribution. It was bumped from that issue, along with all the other food coverage, and finally appears in this month's March/April special package
Mark Bittman on Cooking Up a Story
Mark Bittman, whose "How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food" is the best present you can give a young wannabe cook —
Getting corny: Video responses to the Corn Refiners’ HFCS campaign
Things have been far too serious around here lately, what with all these petitions and dire reports. Fortunately, a writer on Tufts' Comfood list-serv (yes, we poach lots of good ideas from there) has alerted us to a very fun way to waste some time and laugh, too: the anti-high fructose corn syrup ads
Friday musical interlude: Obama, Wilco at Farm Aid 2005
Here's something to start the weekend off pleasantly: soon-to-be-Ethicurean Debra Eschmeyer posted this Farm Aid 2005 video on Facebook, with Barack Obama first talking about family farmers then introducing the band Wilco — three things
“Homegrown”: New documentary on Pasadena urban microfarm
Just got an email from the director of "Homegrown," what looks like a cool new documentary. It's about the Dervaes family, who run a microscopic organic farm in urban Pasadena, California. They live on
