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Wineglasses

Posted in Beer and Wine, Community, Media on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Check out this segment from The Splendid Table and never again fret over a broken wineglass or postpone celebrations. Photo by dhamzza

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Laughable Labels

Posted in Agriculture, Big Food, In the News, Local, Media on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Is this the co-opting of “local” or just a really broad interpretation? My recent encounter in Oklahoma City with this “locally grown” jar of roasted bell peppers from Napa Valley caused me to revisit this fantastic article from last May, which explores the angles and issues with the “local” label. Mezzetta, Frito Lay, and others [...]

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Some Reading

Posted in Blogs, In the News, Media on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Here are some food-related articles I’ve recently read. Are there some good ones I’ve missed? It takes a community to sustain a small farm “I used to think there were four distinct pieces to a local food system: production, processing, distribution, and retail. Now I realize there is a fifth: community. Without an involved community [...]

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Slant and Sausage

Posted in Big Food, Blogs, In the News, Meat, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Do you subscribe to Meatingplace headlines and blog updates? I can’t remember how I came across the site, but I continue to read and get pissed; read, get pissed. It’s my education on inserting bias and “fast, flexible, fully automated sausage production.” The industry blogs are even more fun, where bloggers like Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton [...]

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Speaking of indoctrination…

Posted in Events, Health, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Don’t ya just love all this “indoctrination” talk stirred up because—gasp!—the President seeks to directly engage schoolchildren? Let us focus on some legitimate indoctrination: “By the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that one in five schools participating in the National School Lunch Program had brand-name fast foods in their lunchrooms.” —School Lunch [...]

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Food, Inc. Buzz

Posted in Big Food, Media on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Industry web sites have been created to respond to Food, Inc. Monsanto Animal agriculture industry groups National Chicken Council

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I need to share.

Posted in Events, Media on June 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »

I’m in San Francisco for a work-related conference. Food has been a nice diversion from the sometimes-dry subject of legislative redistricting. I’ve been eating some great food—more on that later. And I got to see Food, Inc. in its limited release. Amazing. It covered a lot of ground— mainly reinforcing things I already new a [...]

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Food, Inc.

Posted in Media on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

NYT has a review of Food, Inc. From what I’ve read, it seems Food, Inc. is a culmination of the last several years’ worth of media critiquing our food system. I’m going to be in San Francisco during opening weekend. Maybe I’ll get to see it!

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Icebox Insight

Posted in Community, Experimenting, Media on June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

23-year-old bachelor | fort worth, tx | 1-person household | recently discovered that sauteed spinach can be good stay at home mom | del valle, tx | 3-person household | new obsession: iced coffee empty-nesters | ft worth, tx | 2-person household | memorial day & birthday weekend magazine editor | edmond, ok | 2-person [...]

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Are You What You Eat?

Posted in Community, Media, Random on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check out this photo series. Cool, huh? Here is a similar, though more sobering, collection. I’d love to post a similar series of photos here. Let us peek into your life by emailing a photo of your open fridge. This is a chance to show off the lovely contents of your fridge or to “come out” about your take-out [...]

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