Some Reading

February 26, 2009 by Tricia

A diverse sampling of food-related reading:

The Price of Tomatoes
Related photos here. As a relatively petty aside, notice the color of the tomatoes.

Nice essay on organic food. Clean food should not be a luxury item.

An amazing 2002 article by Michael Pollan on industrial livestock: from artificial insemination to the shrink-wrapped steak. Extremely informative.

on February 26, 2009 at 10:26 pm | Reply Vines & Cattle

Good links. I just picked up “Righteous Pork Chop” today.
on February 26, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Reply oklavore

I just added that to my goodreads.com “to read” list. I’d like to know what you think of it.
on February 27, 2009 at 10:10 am | Reply Hubby

Nuff said:

http://consumerist.com/5161202/the-worst-food-product-ever-may-have-been-found
on February 27, 2009 at 2:18 pm | Reply simplestewardship

I just got back from Full Circle Books where I purchased “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – a Year of Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver. Looks good.
on March 12, 2009 at 10:48 am | Reply Vines & Cattle

A link and my comments on a NYT piece here. Plus, a review of Righteous Pork Chop coming soon!

http://vinesandcattle.wordpress.com/
on April 5, 2009 at 10:50 pm | Reply Some Reading «

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