A deadly salmon virus is likely to decimate wild stocks in coming decades. This highly contagious virus, which developed in the salmon farms of Norway, has infected British Columbia wild salmon that have had contact with farm-raised fish. When we turn animals into industrialized products,...
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A very interesting interview with Josh Viertel, head of Slow Food USA. The piece particularly interrogates the annoying Mark Bittman piece from a couple of weeks ago when he blamed.
Well, leave it to the always excellent Sesame Street to be one of the first major artistic endeavors to take on the current economic crisis, reaching to the growing number.
Now this is fascinating. What's particularly interesting is that the decline of pumpkin beer in the early 19th century was not about temperance, but about a modernizing nation turning its back on traditional food as rustic and uncouth. This is interesting given today's fretting among...
Atrios points us to this piece on supermarkets pulling back from the self-checkout stands. I am very glad to see this. As Atrios points out, these things are nothing more.
While I often like Mark Bittman, like a lot of the recent generation of food writers (and, all too often, environmental writers more broadly), he talks down to the poor..
From a Times piece on the growth of food carts selling junk food outside of high schools that have cut out bad food from the school menus: “It’s not going to do much,” said Nathan Estrada, 15, a sophomore, who had a sandwich from home...
As a man trying to raise his child as a vegetarian, David Sirota dislikes fake meat products: ...the next time you go shopping, imagine what a kid gleans from veggie.
Here is a homeopathic recipe for scarlet fever from Annabella P. Hill's, Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book, from 1867. "As soon as the nature of the disease is ascertained, rub.
Another entry tonight from Elizabeth Fries Ellet's New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper, from 1871. This bit is on adulterated sugar. "The sugar, if it be brown, without taking note of such items as a little lead, a good deal of sand, some...
Greenpeace is launching a major new campaign against the tuna industry, built around the massive deaths to other species caused by the way albacore tuna is caught: Longlines are just.
Here's another recipe of sorts for you, from Elizabeth Fries Ellet's 1871 book New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper. Really more of a practical tip on how to.