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Food Movement 101: What Is It? (Part 1 of 2)

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, [...]

On the Not-So-Weird Absence of Food Guides in Cyberspace (with Research Tips!)

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 [...]

Why Did We Start Eating Junk?

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 [...]