Food, Music, Place
It all started when Josh Homme showed up on No Reservations. A few weeks ago, No Reservations aired what may well be the best four minutes of cinema I’ve seen in ages (seriously, watch that clip at...
View ArticleThe Big Picture of Food’s Future (Links)
Lots of coverage this week of the USDA’s new E. coli ban, so there isn’t too much breaking-news style policy to cover in our links round-up. But I’m rather happy for the respite, as it gives us a...
View ArticleWhere Does Wal-Mart Fit Into the Food Revolution?
Wal-Mart’s made food news again this week with the donation of $1 million to Milwaukee’s urban farming mecca, Growing Power. As a result, a familiar conversation is kicking up over the role of large...
View ArticleFood & Government in All the Wrong Places
Here are a few relevant links from around the web this week, many of which involve federal or state government involvement in food. Unfortunately, it seems that the government isn’t where it should be,...
View ArticleFoodies for Affordability
This past winter, Scott showed me this essay from The Atlantic, a sprawling piece whose central complaint is that foodies, by caring too much about food that tastes good and is artisanal in its...
View ArticleEating Well on Wall Street
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the Occupy Wall Street movement (as it has certainly become more than an individual protest now) and I find this pretty rad. I could certainly go on about...
View ArticleThe Weird & Wacky World of Food Marketing & Policy
Sometimes, as a composition teacher, I get very sad at the world. Sometimes I have to walk around in a world where many people speak, think and behave in the very ways I try to convince my students not...
View ArticleCorporate Vegetarian Food
I’m in the midst of a pretty serious overhaul of the working manuscript of The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat, a process that is involving the second major rounds of cutting/rewriting to the book in...
View ArticleInequality in Our Food System
A few events, some louder than others this week got me thinking about just how unequal our current food system is. The protestors on Wall Street are angry because income disparity leads to a disparity...
View ArticleNibbles: What We Didn’t Eat This Week
Quite a variety of happenings in the world of food this week. The Good An illuminating new report out by the cooking & nutrition charity Share Our Strength provides concrete evidence that...
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