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Baltimore gets food czar
B'more healthy: Baltimore has hired a food policy coordinator, making the city one of the first with a paid "food czar" -- although taxpayers aren't paying her salary, a coalition of nonprofits are, to the tune of just 30 hours a week. Holly Freishtat is charged with "getting more healthy food on the tables of the people who need it," but she has a
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Back to the future: Maryland’s Springfield Farm is new old-school
From Leslie Hatfield
Last weekend, my partner Jaimes and I picked up our friend, Nikki, in a bright yellow rental car and drove about 20 miles outside of Baltimore to Springfield Farm. I'd discovered it through the Comments Off • Read more »
Digest: Mergers, monopolies, thieves, imposters, and rats
Bad seed: A proposed merger between Monsanto (the world's largest seed company) and the nation's largest cottonseed seller could mean bad news for organic cotton growers, says the Center for Food Safety, which is seeking to block the deal. Wired
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Meat Labeling 101 for restaurant critics
From a restaurant review in today's Baltimore Sun: Good cheap eats are something I'm all for, particularly when there's a nod to the new millennium's sensibilities. The sausage
Baltimore brews
Updated with photos! Our long residence on the West Coast gave us the impression that there is no decent beer east of the Rockies until you cross the Canadian border or reach Europe. This bias could have been argued until the mid-1990s. I remember business trips to the East Coast where the only alternatives
Ethicureans abroad: or, our visit to Baltimore
Update: We've added photos after a slight delay.--MolM. This last weekend, Man of La Muncha and I traveled to Baltimore for a friend's wedding. The wedding was wonderful, and we met (and in some cases, re-met) a lot of very fun and interesting people. But, of course, any trip involving Ethicureans
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