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Ethicurean nominated for Treehugger Best of Green award!
The Ethicurean has been nominated for a TreeHugger.com Best of Green award, in the Food & Health category. The Best of Green Awards recognize "the people, companies and ideas doing the best in walking the sustainability
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Scorched pastures and lost birds at Soul Food Farm
The Bay Area's well-known, much-loved Soul Food Farm was devastated by a fire last night, I learned this morning from a heartbreaking email sent to friends by Soul Food's Alexis
New book about high cost of a bargain, “Cheap,” lauds Wegmans
And what about those Swedish meatballs?: This provocatively titled review ("Why Ikea is as bad as Wal-Mart") of Ellen Ruppel Shell's new book, "Cheap:
Fujimotos’ departure from Monterey Market a tough blow to local food chain
By Carol Ness Calling Bill and Judy Fujimoto's forced departure on Wednesday from Berkeley's Monterey Market — after two years of family dissension over their vision for the business — a tragedy isn't a stretch. For those who don't know it, Monterey
BAMCO backs Florida tomato pickers in fight for fair labor standards
CIW's Lucas Benitez and BAMCO CEO Fedele Bauccio in Florida. Photo from Straus Comm. release Jane Black reports in the Washington Post that the gigantic U.S. food-service company Bon
Digest - Features: Urban farmer, Brody on HFCS, swill shill
"If your goat is giving birth, it’s not like you can go to work": Friend o'Ethicurean Twilight Greenaway interviews Novella Carpenter, Oakland's most fearless backyard farmer and soon-to-be-author. (Culinate.com) E
When discrimination is more than OK: Time to call our reps about pesticide policy
Update 4/10: We're hearing from our confidential intel sources on the Hill (OK, an action alert I just received) that the deadline for asking your reps to sign the letter mentioned below has been extended until mid-day tomorrow, 4/11. I just called my rep. The feeling of fulfillment is immense... try
John Edwards knows the way to this Ethicurean’s heart
…is through my stomach. Seriously, as obsessed as we are with food politics, we do care about other kinds as well. Yes, the Farm Bill was a disaster, but so was the Energy Bill. And let's not even talk about Iraq or healthcare and education in this country. We're not endorsing anyone based on
Digest - Features: Methyl bromide alive and kicking in Cali, beyond-kosher movement
Do we need strawberries and tomatoes in winter that badly?: Methyl bromide, a common pesticide and fumigant, is not only toxic to humans but harms the ozone layer. So why is the U.S. still using it? And why does California, which has some of the toughest laws governing its use, spraying 6.5 million pounds
Digest - Blogs: Salatin opines, Windy City to ban chickens, organic processors doing their part
Everything he wants to say should probably be illegal: The inimitable Joel Salatin riffs on the pitfalls of “sound science.” (Food Democracy) Buy fresh, buy local ingredients: Lainie deconstructs new
Digest - Blogs: Exploring food deserts, Cargill timeline, music to our ears
Watching the sausage being made so we don't have to: The absolutely heroic Dan Owens is live-blogging the Senate's Farm Bill cluster$*%@ debate — with trademark blistering commentary. (Blog for Rural America) "Nutritional apartheid": OrangeClouds115
“King Corn” preview and discussion in Berkeley draws crowd
Michael Pollan with "King Corn" stars Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, and director Aaron Woolf, along with a corny hat that Pollan had in his backpack. As expected, Tuesday night's special event for "King Corn," featuring Michael Pollan and the
Bay Area events: “King Corn” filmmakers to chat with Michael Pollan, audiences
Like the maize from which it takes its name, the documentary "King Corn" is conquering America. The film's message — that maybe, just maybe, the U.S. is growing too much subsidized cheap grain — obviously contains enough kernels of truth to
“King Corn” is really about zombies
BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin has an entertaining interview for bbTV with the "King Corn" guys, shortly after their screening for Congress. Although they look like they're getting used to
Digest - Features: The ABCs of GM foods, Alice as the Sustainable Kitchen Fairy, clean-food catastrophe
This Digest was amended at 11 a.m. to add the excellent New York Times Magazine feature on water. A frank look at frankenfoods: Science writer Elena Conis has a top-notch, clear-eyed primer on the science of, and debate over, genetically modified foods — which can be found in 70% of processed foods.
