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Slow Food USA’s Thanksgiving Guide
Slow Food USA has compiled a Thanksgiving Guide, with an inspiring collection of recipes from around the internet, links to sources of heritage turkeys and local food directories, and time and money saving tips.
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NYT Food Issue
The New York Times Magazine Food Issue is out, with writers giving brief answers to a series of questions. Michael Pollan weighs in on a variety of food system issues, including a question which has vexed me for a while: How can white rice be that bad for you if Asians have been eating it [...]
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What to do about food chemicals eaten in tiny amounts?
In her most recent Food Matters column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Marion Nestle answers the question of “What to do about food chemicals eaten in tiny amounts?” Read the column at Nestle’s Food Politics blog. If you’re like me, you already do most of these things, but it’s good to hear her explanations of [...]
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Big Ag, GE Foods, and BPA
Civil Eats covers three stories of interest: Who’s Behind the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance and Why It Matters, about the recent series of “Food Dialogues” held by the USFRA, basically a publicity campaign to present industrial ag in a better light. An Exclusive Report on GE Foods Answers Questions Big Ag Doesn’t Want You [...]
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The Nation’s Forum on The Food Movement
The Nation is presenting a forum on The Food Movement with contributions from major figures in the field. Included are: Frances Moore Lappé on The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities And a series of replies from: Raj Patel on Why Hunger Is Still With Us Vandana Shiva on Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds [...]
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Reading Lists
I’m still compiling my own reading list page for my resources, but in the mean time here’s a couple of lists of slow food and sustainable food reading materials. From the Slow Food Blog, a list of articles, books, films, and web sites. At Audubon Magazine, prominent names in the sustainable food field give their [...]
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Goodbye to The Minimalist, Hello to a Real Food Advocate
Three weeks ago, Mark Bittman‘s The Minimalist column ended a 13 year run in The New York Times. Bittman (as he is known even to my 6 year old daughter) has become a go-to source in our household, since his recipes provide flavorful but usually straightforward dishes with many options for substitutions and variations. In [...]
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Fending Off Weeds with Newsprint
In the Garden section of the New York Times there’s a chatty piece about creating new garden beds by laying down newspaper directly on your lawn and covering it with compost. The technique, if done properly, works really well. When we converted our former raised beds into a flower garden this past spring we decided [...]
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Gulf Seafood Safety Still a Concern
Via the Gulf Restoration Network comes this post at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You? Gina Solomon writes, Today, NOAA reopened 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to shrimping and fishing. I took a look at the data on which NOAA [...]
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Sugar in Children’s Cereals