My office has one of these single-serving coffee machines, where you put in a coffee “pod” and out comes a mug-full of coffee. The pod and the grounds disappear into the bowels of the machine, to be thrown away later. The New York Times points out that, not surprisingly, these pods aren’t so friendly to [...]
I tend to get pretty geeky about food politics. I know full well that most people don’t care about it as much as I do, and that plenty of people don’t even know what that means. So it’s exciting to me when I see someone – a private company, no less – trying to educate [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and my excuse is that I’ve been too busy to cook, and therefore not only too busy to blog, but haven’t had much to blog about. Nathan and I spent most of the past 2 weeks remodeling our bathroom – it took an entire weekend, plus evenings for [...]
A few months ago, Michael Pollan wrote an editorial in the NY Times urging Americans to cook more. Feminists called him out, claiming that this burden would inevitably fall on women rather than men, and called him sexist. I disagree – I think we do need to cook more, and both men and women should [...]
Here’s yet another reason to support your small, local farm: large farms have a serious problem with manure. They stink, literally. They also stink for the environment, and the people living near them. Today’s Washington Post had a great article explaining the many issues with disposing of animal waste from factory farms. If you don’t [...]
A few weeks ago, I reflected on an article about the treatment of workers on organic farms. I was skeptical that small/local/organic farms would treat their workers worse than a large, industrial farm would. This recent article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian suggests that I was wrong – the average organic farm treats its [...]
I’m back! Did you miss me? …Did you know I was gone? It’s been a crazy few weeks with not much time for me to blog, but life has calmed down now, and I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. You can expect a whole slew of posts around Thanksgiving. A friend [...]
If this blog has been quiet recently, it’s because I’ve been too active – first vacation, then life getting in the way. I’ve got a post coming about all the great food I ate on vacation. But for now, enjoy a thoroughly entertaining interview with Michael Pollan on the Colbert Report: The Colbert Report Mon [...]
It’s a happy day for local foodies: Michelle Obama is going to start a vegetable garden at the White House. The sustainable food community has been pushing for this since before Barack’s inauguration: symbolically, the garden stands for healthy eating, local food, and freshly prepared meals. It sounds like those meals will be pretty tasty, [...]
Wal-mart has been in the news a lot lately for, well, for a lot of things, but one of them is its efforts to provide more organic foods. If you, like me, wonder whether it’s possible for a mega-corporation like Wal-mart to really help the organic food movement and not corrupt it, check out Eating [...]