Cocina Poblano. Regional Mexican cuisine complete with a live tortilla bar and a wide selection of high-end tequilas comes to Jack London Square. 499 Embarcadero West (at Washington), Oakland; (510) 451-4700. Lunch, dinner daily; weekend brunch.
—San Francisco Chronicle

I don’t have the budget or time to travel the world seeking dining adventures like Tom Parker Bowles […]

Since emerging as an independent program, the Eat Well team has been working feverishly to develop some new tools to make it easier for North Americans to find good food. Among the new developments, all of which should be on the internets in time for summer:

On our recent Pollan Painting weekend, my five-year-old son Frederick and I read with interest about the slaughter technique used at Joel Salatin’s natural poultry operation. Frederick  has some personal knowledge of poultry slaughter but was curious about commercial slaughter operations. A Google image search of “chicken slaughter” inspired him to paint this:

[See his first […]

From the February 4, 2008, issue:

More Ethicurean-related New Yorker cartoons here and here.

Sorry for the additional tooting of our horn, but last week the food writer and chef Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel’s "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," ran a brief interview with us Ethicureans on his blog Kitchen Table. His staff asked us to weigh in on what we thought were the top three […]

Jane Black has a great article in the Washington Post’s food section today, about how the recent tsunami of headlines on contaminated food from China, E. coli outbreaks, and cloned meat has caused an increasing number of people "to become their own food inspectors, using the Internet and their values about health, the environment and […]

Special to The Ethicurean, by Barry Foy
Reactions ranged from bewilderment to outrage at Ethicurean.com today, following news that the food watchdog had fallen victim to a hostile takeover by chemical/genetics giant Monsanto Corp.
Monsanto’s announcement was upbeat: “We are pleased to welcome Ethicurean.com into the Monsanto family (The Stuff of Life: We Own It…for the Children®). […]

Pardon me for interrupting our regularly scheduled programming. Just so I don’t have to type this to one more person — I have a pinched-nerve/disc problem that is giving me stabbing pains in my neck and right arm. I can barely type or mouse with my right hand without wincing. I am also leaving for […]

I’m still crippled — reduced to mousing and typing with left hand while standing with an ice pack strapped to my back (yeah, I know how sexy I look — you should see me in my cervical collar!). Sorry, but that means no Digest, and believe me, those 7,142-and-counting unread headlines are hurting me just […]

Beginning in 2001, an art-school dropout and ex-knife salesman named Bruce Cole was publishing biting food-politics posts and news coverage at a blog called Saute Wednesday. Now he’s running Edible San Francisco.

It’s long overdue, but I’ve just added a plugin so you can "subscribe to follow-up comments" via email. Note a new checkbox just before the comment form. This only works if you leave a comment; lurkers will just have to watch and refresh. You can also "manage" your subscriptions, as in turn them off later […]

This Hook’n’Go cart, specially designed for farmers markets — a birthday gift from my mom last year, when it was NOT $60, I hope — has been a lifesaver when my personal pack mule husband can’t accompany me on my big shops.
Saturday was some sort of record — I think I have 50 pounds of […]

Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim is once again spearheading the epic online fund-raiser Menu for Hope to benefit the U.N. World Food Programme. In 2006 she raised over $62,000. This year’s donations — which just passed $55,000! — will be earmarked for the school lunch program in Lesotho.

It’s kinda been all Farm Bill, all the time around the blog for what seems like a while.
I’ve had a nasty cold that stole my voice for over a week, causing me to sound like Demi Moore with a tracheotomy. A vat of homemade chicken noodle soup seems to have finally banished the bugs: I […]

Our friend Derrick sends us this "unicorn chaser" for a very disappointing week: a Tourettes-ing Rowan Atkinson and a baby-faced John Cleese in a silly skit. Why is it Ethicurean-worthy? Well, it’s nominally (ssst!) about beekeeping … and life (waack!).

Via the Cynical-C blog