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Local food safety cop?: In which Bill Marler is compared to John Travolta, Ally McBeal, Julia Roberts, and 80s pop star Tiffany, all in one place
Earlier this week, Bill Marler, the attorney who’s earned oodles suing food companies for selling products contaminated with E. coli and other pathogens (his wife's car even sports an ECOLI
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Gary Nabhan: Those who forget history are doomed to re-eat it
Above the din of the enthusiastic multitude of Green Festival attendees in San Francisco, renowned author, ethnobotanist, food preservationist, and historian
Digest – News: Subway and Michigan join the ranks of the enlightened, Japan counts (domestic) calories
12/12 update: Victory at Tar Heel: After a 14-year dispute with company leadership, workers at Smithfield's Tar Heel, NC plant voted last night to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Smithfield workers had voted against joining the union on two previous occasions, but the company was found
Hoe, hoe, hoe! A Victory Garden wish list
Dear Santa, December is already here, and though I'm sure you must be busy running the rush orders through your workshop and checking those lists of "naughty" and "nice" and loading up the sleigh, I'm afraid that we've
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Digest – Opinion & Blogs: How to give thanks, Merrigan for USDA
Food security begins at home: James Surowiecki on why, despite the overall global "marketization" of agriculture, lots of people simply still can't get enough to eat, and the world food supply seems more vulnerable than ever. (
Opening up: Notes from the Northeast Ohio Food Congress
When I hear or read comments that dismiss local foods as something only folks in California can do, I'm puzzled. Everywhere I go in northeast Ohio, I see farms and markets that have locally grown and produced foods for sale.
A foraged wild mushroom feast at Les Jardins Sauvages
When I was young, I hated mushrooms. At least, I thought I did, but I hadn't really ever eaten them. I was under the impression that they were slimy and gross, which was the basic opinion of my parents. The only mushrooms
Waiting is the harvest part
If you've been wondering, "Whatever happened to those Victory Gardens you Ethicureans were tending?" — well, truth is, after that last big burst of excitement with tomatoes
Finding real food on the road — all the way across America
By Stephanie Pierce My husband and I recently finished a summer-long adventure in which we toured the northern half of the United
Farmers market snapshot: Bay Area bounty in October
October is Eat Local Challenge month, and we should have made a big deal about it before. However, we have all been pretty swamped — the road to blogging hell is paved
Farm-to-Market: Island Grown Farmers Cooperative
I spotted a familiar face on the front page of Friday’s Wall Street Journal. Farmer Bruce Dunlop looked back at me while I read about the mobile
Mini-Digest (Blogs): Shredding the NYT’s locavore coverage, the end of food — and the organic boom? Plus TCHO Chocolate TV
Our friends in the blogging world have been busy cooking up some great pieces. Back when we did the Digest lo so many months ago, these all would have merited a green star, or even two. So check'em out. Sacred cows made of bullshit: Kerry Trueman tartly (and masterfully) fillets the numerous "let's not
Anything zuke can do…
Every summer I look forward to each crop coming into its own, and I dream about all the wonderful dishes I'll cook or the preserves I'll make for winter. I'm even learning to appreciate some produce that gets less
Victory Garden update: Finally, everyone’s eating something
Lately we've seen a bumper crop of articles extolling the virtues of gardening. Sure, it's a great way to reduce your food costs at a time when those prices are experiencing rapid growth spurts. But it's more than that:
Wal-Mart sees the locavore light
The Associated Press reports that Wal-Mart plans to spend $400 million on locally grown produce this year, which the company defines as anything farmed within a state's boundaries. The company's Commitment to You
