By Paul Cooper on October 2nd, 2009
Those who’ve been following the food beat for personal or professional reasons in the past couple of years probably have a vague, but pretty good idea of what is meant by “the food movement.” The same can’t be said, however, for friends of mine who’ve just started reading one of Michael Pollan’s books or who, [...]
By Paul Cooper on September 5th, 2009
You’d think that the web, which is so full of everything else, would also be full of handy, sustainable food guides of all shapes, colors and configurations. It isn’t. You can’t just plug the brand name of your frozen pizza into a search field somewhere and get a full readout of the provenance of your [...]
By Paul Cooper on August 10th, 2009
I like to think that the slow food/good food/real food movement (or whatever you want to call it) partly owes its success to the weird diet, the fallout-shelter “food” many of us grew up in the ’70s and ’80s. It all had one thing in common: left to its own devices, it would take months [...]