2.21.12 / Wendell Berry Napkin Note
Zayde Buti
Camera:Katrine Burkitt
Passage from Berry's essay The Pleasures of Eating
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0.16.11 / Organic: A Smart Investment in Your Family's Heath and Children's Future
When it comes to bargain shopping, I always choose organic.
According to Wikipedia the US is the second-leading producer of apples, with more than 7.5% of world production. When was the last time you tasted a really good one? Where did it come from?
9.18.11 / Facts
Camera:Katrine Burkitt
Passage from Berry's essay The Pleasures of Eating
posted by David
0.16.11 / Organic: A Smart Investment in Your Family's Heath and Children's Future
When it comes to bargain shopping, I always choose organic.
Yes, you read right. I used the word “bargain” and “organic” in the same sentence, and no, I’m not crazy. I’m simply trying to get the most bang for my nutrition buck, and I want to help you do the same.
According to Wikipedia the US is the second-leading producer of apples, with more than 7.5% of world production. When was the last time you tasted a really good one? Where did it come from?
There is an old apple tree in a local park where I enjoy hiking on weekends.
Last Saturday, I filled up my pockets with some. If an apple (that looked) like this one was available in your average American supermarket, I wonder how many shoppers might pass on it, based on it's appearance. Too many foods today are grown for their uniformity of appearance and long shelf life. They have almost no flavor.
Last Saturday, I filled up my pockets with some. If an apple (that looked) like this one was available in your average American supermarket, I wonder how many shoppers might pass on it, based on it's appearance. Too many foods today are grown for their uniformity of appearance and long shelf life. They have almost no flavor.
The apples that I picked from this tree are the real deal. The tree appears to have not been pruned in years and I am reasonably certain that no one has sprayed this tree with any pesticides. Amazing that as a society we will put up with toxic chemicals on our apples but not brown spots or little wormy holes.
Crunch, slurp, slurp. The tart, juicy flavor just bursts off of your tongue. Yum!
posted by David
posted by David
9.18.11 / Facts
Despite early promises that GM farming would dramatically reduce the quantities of herbicides used in agriculture, research now shows that Roundup use in the U.S. has actually increased 15-fold since 1994 when the first herbicide-tolerant GM crops were introduced.
By Stefan Kamph Thursday, Sep 15 2011
From Miami New Times
Late one afternoon this summer in Lake Eola Park (Miami, Florida), Keith McHenry got arrested — again — for trying to serve free food in public... more
97% of the varieties of vegetables grown at the beginning of the 20th century are now extinct.
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8.30.11 / BrightFarms
BrightFarms operates hydroponic rooftop greenhouses directly on top of grocery retailers, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain.
www.brightfarms.com
posted by Kevin
BrightFarms operates hydroponic rooftop greenhouses directly on top of grocery retailers, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain.
www.brightfarms.com
posted by Kevin
8.28.11 / Local, Organic, Seasonal
Simple eating is best. I made this tonight in about 6 minutes using 5 locally grown/homegrown organic ingredients. I quickly sauteed the mustard greens from my garden in olive oil over medium heat for about 3 minutes. When they began to brighten up, I added a splash of soy sos and turned off the heat. Next, I added freshly sliced yellow tomatoes from Churchview Farms, squash flowers and raspberries from my garden and then sprinkled some locally made chipotle chili powder (which I get from Renya's in the Strip). I topped it off with some elderberries, that I'd been cooking down into a compote. Wa-La! (I ate it in about 3 minutes)
Elderberry compote. Local organic elderberries ($2 for a nice bunch). Cooked them with water,
brown sugar and maple syrup, because that's what I had around. Squeeze a fresh lime over this!
Heaven in an orange bowl.
posted by David
posted by David
8.24.11 / Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard
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8.18.11 / Celebrate National Honey Bee Day on August 20!
www.buylocalpa.org/event/view/1377
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8.01.11 / Urban Roots
Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation with
collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future.
posted by David
88 minutes. An informative account of both the food Americans so readily consume without so much as a second thought, and the alarming state of the contemporary agricultural industry.
www.kingcorn.net
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7.23.11 / What's Cooking Uncle Sam? The Government's Effect on the American Diet
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7.21.11 / Rethinking the Food Label
Rethink the Food Label is a project by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s News21 program and Good Magazine. They have asked the public, food thinkers, nutritionists, and designers to redesign the Nutrition Facts Label to make it easier to read and more useful to people who want to consume healthier, more nutritious and wholesome food.
Designs could incorporate the nutrition label’s existing break down of fats, sugars, vitamins, calorie counts and percent daily values. Or, they could re-imagine the label to include geography, food quality, food justice, carbon footprint, or lesser-known chemosensory characteristics.
www.berkeley.news21.com/foodlabel
