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Food & Wine magazine sins against the monkfish
A monkfish (Wikimedia Commons) In the January 2010 issue of Food & Wine magazine, former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni
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Dan Barber’s fish tale at the Brooklyn Food Conference
A healthy ecoseastem: Chef and lyrical speaker/writer Dan Barber gave one of his amazing lectures at the Brooklyn Food Conference, and some little agtivist angel has transcribed it for those of us who weren't there. Barber tells a love story about two fish: one that he had to throw back into the sea-based
TV chefs slammed for praising buckets o’protein
Greenberg sees red: Matthew Greenberg slams the "stomach-churning" Sandra Lee, of Food Network fame, for shilling for Kentucky Fried Chicken and takes aim at the Food Network, where "the actual act of cooking good food often seems an afterthought." Asks Greenberg, "How in Alice Waters's green earth did
Report from Taste3: “Culanthropy” in New Orleans with the Culinary Corps
In mid-July, I had the pleasure of attending this year's TASTE3 conference in Napa, California. The conference, which is presented by the Robert Mondavi Winery, is a meeting of minds on the topics of food, wine, and art. Over the span of two days, a stream of chefs, artists,
Alice Waters says Obama is paying attention to food & ag issues
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and America's obesity epidemic is very much on his mind, says Alice Waters, the original SOLE sister and founder of Chez Panisse, in this
Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
Mayors of major American cities are usually the ones answering questions in interviews. So when the mayor is the one doing the interviewing, the subject must be someone special. That was the case on Monday night, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson sat down with chef, food activist, and Slow Food International
To my surprise, I support Rachael Ray, the toroid terrorist
I've long had mixed feelings about Rachael Ray, the TV "chef" lately known as "the face of terrorism." I used to enjoy her travel shows, although I disagreed with her lack of tipping and some of her food choices in Seattle. I dislike her emphasis on prepared foods, but I respect her attempts to make
Digest - Features: Hugh F-W and Jamie Oliver to set feathers flying, grass-fed beef ranchers in unlikely places
English chefs chew it better: The Times Online reports that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the TV chef and author of "The River Cottage Meat Book" is campaigning to get more middle-class Brits to pay
Digest - Commentary: Deeniacs, locamore-ism
Paula Deen Shame Watch: Writes Avram Lyon, executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee, "I won’t watch Paula Deen anymore. Because now when I see her on television, all I can think of are the people working under horrible conditions at Smithfield. Instead of seeing Paula Deen, all I can
Straight-from-the-farm guerrilla dining in South Carolina
Cool little video about an underground restaurant event in Charleston, SC, put on by Curious Fork/Furious Cork — "a place where the hungry, curious and adventurous gather to share, inspire or
WSJ issues correction on Alice Waters and Ameya Preserve
The Wall Street Journal has this correction today to its Nov. 16 article on "Politically Correct Developments," which had
Alice Waters and Montana’s Ameya Preserve: Slow Food uber alles?
The following is by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, who writes the LivingSmall blog from Livingston, Montana; she is the author of the novel Place Last Seen (read the first
Digest - News: Answer to Alice Waters mystery, Farm Bill stalls again, avian flu back in UK
Umbrellas up, chickens — there's a deluge of catch-up links since last weekend's Digesting. O how we hate it when the RSS-feed headlines top 4,000. Alice on the Ameya Preserve: In a Wall Street Journal story titled "Politically Correct Developments: Montana Project Raises Ante for PC Amenities,"
Eat your Devil’s Food and be quiet
We’re in the weeds up to our bleary eyeballs with deadlines and other pesky interruptions to our regular blogging obsessiveness. In the meantime, please nosh on this cooking-themed third installment from Barry Foy's Devil’s Food
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
