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Slow Food Nation: Let the delicious revolution begin!
Slow Food Nation, the three-day festival that's been hyped as the "Woodstock of the food movement" and the "first
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Turnips are takin’ it to the streets
While walking down Broadway in Oakland
Sowing the seeds of social change: Slow Food Nation’s Victory Garden
Last Saturday I attended the launch of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the foot of San Francisco's City
Closing the loop: Turning city food and garden waste into fertilizer
During a break between meetings at the office, one of my coworkers asked, "So, Marc: got any vacations planned?" "Just a little one. I'm going to the Vacaville landfill next Friday," I replied. His eyebrows raised a little bit, and he responded with a quizzical tone, "Hmm...that's an interesting choice.
Salon.com plays the locavoreanism-debunking game
The type of article lamented by a few commenters on my recent post about food miles vs. food choices made an appearance in Salon
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
San Francisco in stainless steel cookware
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is currently hosting a witty installation by Beijing-based artist Zhan Wang. It's a sculpture of San Francisco made entirely of kitchenware
Bay Area event: A discussion of climate-friendly eating
Tomorrow night (Monday, March 31) I'm moderating a discussion about making environmentally conscious food choices, sponsored by CUESA. It's a pretty great panel — all women, incidentally: Helene York, Director of Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and Project Director of the company’s
Digest – Features: Farming San Francisco, 0157′s mutant bastard, mo’ milk
Question for Digest readers; Does it annoy you when a Digest is really long like this one and we don't break it with a More jump? How bout when we do? Locavore locus: The Chronicle's Farming the City package features Kevin
Spring fever
The first strawberries arrived at the Saturday Berkeley farmers market, which to me marks the official start of spring. I didn't get any, as I thought I would pick some up on the way back past the one stand that had them (Catalan Farm, I think?) and by then, of course, they were gone. But asparagus
Why does Kaiser Permanente support both farmers markets and industrial “meal replacement systems”?
I stopped by Kaiser Permanente last Friday at the same time as its weekly farmers market, which the Oakland Medical Center hosts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in partnership with the Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association. It was a pretty sparse
Digest – Commentary/features: SOLE supply blockages, choco woes, go bananas
COMMENTARY Feeling lucky, punk?: "Diet for a Dead Planet" author Christopher D. Cook on how Downergate represents the Russian roulette we've been playing with our food safety system...and now the "deregulated chickens, cows and pigs have come home to roost." (LA
Quick update on Pollan event
The event last night in Vacaville with Michael Pollan went really well, I think. About 300 people showed up. I was able to ask most of my questions, many of yours, and quite a few of the audience's. Most importantly,
Check out the Winter issue of Edible San Francisco
Beginning in 2001 — way before the Ethicurean launched — 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. Bruce was one of our first regular
Eating locavore for the holidays in the Bay Area
The husband and I had Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner by ourselves. We're hibernating, like big antisocial bears — he's hanging drywall and I'm organizing my files. But don't pity us: we couldn't be happier. I hadn't really planned out what we were going to eat, simply going to the farmers market
