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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 no longer go by the name "Nosher", Noshette
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Guest post from Ohio: Seeing red
Bonnie here: At the end of June I sent out a call for new Ethicurean contributors outside the U.S. coasts, and I'm pleased to say that at least three people have emailed me made it through our rigorous application process. Our latest writer,
Postcard from Tunisia: Heaven — I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so…
...that I can hardly blog. I'm in Tunis, and I've finally yanked out the DSL plug fused directly into my brain, in order to enjoy the past few days of serious R&R, while Marc so ably keeps the Ethicurean home fires burning. (Pelosi,
Digest – Features & Blogs: A Portlander’s ethicurean dilemma, dark side of soy, the irradiation debate
FEATURES Best new coinage — "carbon foodprint"!: Zoe Bradley ruminates on the disconnect and guilt she feels putting a pineapple in her Portland shopping cart. She asks, "Why the reductionist, either/or mentality? Why not local and organic, and while we’re at it, grass fed, family scale, socially
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A slow apology, of sorts
Our blogging e-pal Tana at I (Heart) Small Farms has the latest development in the face-off between Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini and the San Francisco Ferry Plaza farmers he dissed in his description of the market,
Digest: China does damage control (at last), pigs cleared, cheap food gets dearer, USDA OK’s non-organic ingredients
There are even more links worthy of inclusion today, but we ran out of time. Look for a follow-up Digest later tonight or tomorrow. NEWS Don't blame our few bad melamine-tainted apples: China has urged the United States not to take punitive action against its exporters of agricultural goods. The government
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the goodest, cleanest, and fairest of them all?
In case you haven't been following the comments section of Mental Masala's and my post today about Slow Food leader Carlo Petrini's lecture in San Francisco, there's quite a kerfuffle over the part in his new book in which he visits San Francisco's
A recipe for change: Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini speaks in San Francisco
On May 10 Dairy Queen and I went to a lecture by Slow Food International founder Carlo Petrini, who's on the road to promote the English-language release of his book "Slow
Pignorance is not bliss: A weekend making salumi
People who enjoy sausage and respect the law should not watch either being made. That curt assessment is usually attributed to 19th-century statesman Otto von Bismarck, and I can certainly agree with him about the second part. For example, it's hard to see how all the maneuvering and wheeling-and-dealing
Grubbing up against strangers in Berkeley
I used to make fun of the Dairy Queen Mother for talking to strangers everywhere she went — in elevators, grocery stores, even movie-theater bathrooms. Actually, she still does it, and I still tease her about it, partly because she has no "psychodar" (sorry, Mom). But when the subject is SOLE food,
Food from the Heart festival at Ferry Building tonight
There's a benefit for Slow Food tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Admission to "Food from the Heart" is free, and the marketplace's merchants and restaurateurs will be offering
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Digest: Packer ban, organic schism, organic cloning, “ethical” foie gras
Meat monopoly busters: A new "packer ban" bill introduced by Senators Charles Grassley and Tom Harkin seeks to prohibit the large meatpackers from buying and raising their own livestock, which leads to price gouging and shutting out small farmers and ranchers. This is really big news, as it would basically
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Sprouting a new appreciation
A big shout-out to all you passionate Brussel-sprout lovers — Stonefruit in particular — as I have finally had a pleasant experience with the cabbagey kids! I waited until the weather turned frosty, as what's bad for citrus is good
Ayote gets my vote
I want everyone to see this squash. In fact, I want everyone to taste this squash. It's from Finca Pura Vida, a certified organic farm in Fayetteville, TX which sells goods at the Sunset Valley Farmer's
Digest: Economist weighs in, epic fish tale, Schlosser on food safety …
The Economist: In a sign that it has reached true zeitgeist level, the venerable U.K. magazine takes on the idea of voting with your forks. While we'd dispute some of the cavalier claims from interested parties that organic
