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Farmers market overload
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
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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
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“A three-ring circus of fruits and vegetables”: Monterey Market in film
I spent part of a beautiful sunny afternoon last weekend watching a documentary about a grocery store. That's right, a documentary about a grocery store. Some of you might be thinking that I saw Robert Greenwald's "Walmart: The High Cost of Low
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Tongue in chic: On being a modern offal eater, plus recipe for poached beef tongue
Supposing you were asked to make something you've never made before for a potluck. What springs to mind? And what does it say about you? The range of dishes on offer at my friend Rachel's latest edition of Grub provided interesting insight
Urban Chicken Park(ing) Day in SF: Clucking awesome
Slide show of chicken photos from yesterday — check out the pics of other park(ing) spaces posted to Flickr: A big thanks to the friends
Is the success of farmers markets hurting farmers?
[Updated on 9/22 to include positive sentiments from farmers about farmers markets] Just as I was thinking that the Bay Area is enjoying a golden age of farmers markets, with a multitude of farmers markets bringing fresh, local food directly from the farm to the consumer, reality drops in: farmers markets
Chicken out in San Francisco!
Tomorrow is Park(ing) Day, and for my last day at Wired, Phil "Lord of the Chickens" Ferrato and I will be taking over a metered space in San Francisco's South of Market district and turning it into a grassy urban-poultry habitat, complete with two Gold-Laced
Eating local, organic lunches every day at work — for $4
Which Bay Area-based, technology-oriented company with a hip-yet-geeky staff has made a point of serving local, organically grown food since 1997? Nope, not Google. Back then, at the height of the dot-come boom, Larry and Sergey were still grad students and calling their search technology "BackRub"
Putting up with friends
RSS readers might not display the flashy Pictobrowser slide show below, so click through if you want to see us do the can-can. Yesterday was Labor Day, and Marc, Rachel, and I stocked up like locavorean squirrels for the winter. Well, that's what I thought the plan was. But 8 hours, 50 pounds of tomatoes,
Food Bloggers on the Farm in San Francisco
The surroundings of Alemany Farm in San Francisco do not bring forth feelings of pastoral tranquillity. On one side is 12 lanes of high-speed traffic (Interstate 280 and Alemany Blvd), which showers the area with waves of noise. On another side,
Events: Meet the folks behind the Eat Well Guide and The Meatrix!
Sustainable Table, the nonprofit responsible for the indispensable Eat Well Guide and the proud sponsor of the most
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Digest – Features: Kolbert buzz on CCD, lessons from New Zealand
Queen Bee: Finally, Dairy Queen's favorite magazine ventures into the food-politics field with a terrific first-person essay on the crisis in beekeeping, by no less than climate-change expert and author Elizabeth Kolbert (who shows off her back-yard bee colony in a audio
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Corn syrup takes to the streets
Honorary streets are popular in many cities--New York has Joey Ramone Place (E. 2nd Street at The Bowery) and Peter Jennings Way (66th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park), San Francisco has Lawrence
Digest: Dairy ads restricted, worrisome hormones in all milk, the Bay Area oyster wars
Like Americans, the Digest just gets fatter and fatter. We'd love to put it on a diet, but there's a lot of good stuff out there, and just as at foodie potlucks, we just can't help but load up our plates. NEWS Checkoff, unchecked: The Federal Trade Commission is asking the USDA and the dairy industry
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Digest: The almond band, pork scandal widens, Michigan fed up with shit
Sheesh! The Digest takes a break for a few days and the New York Times Dining section blooms green with a vengeance for its post-Earth Day edition yesterday, while the Chronicle continues to impress with its excellent, SOLE-informed coverage. It'll take us ages to catch back up, but here are some of
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